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Topic: defence spending
(Image: Private Media)

Five big items the budget should tackle (but probably won’t). Nor will Labor

Politics

Mar 29, 2022

20

Treasurer Josh Frydenburg (Image: AAP)

Budget 2022: what we know so far

Economy

Mar 28, 2022

8

(Image: Supplied)

The nuclear option: will submarines be a Trojan Horse for reactors?

Defence

Sep 17, 2021

30

(Image: Tom Red/Private Media)

The Great White Fleet is back in town

Defence

Sep 16, 2021

86

(Image: AP/David Goldman)

Fewer guns, more butter: why America needs dollars for diplomacy rather than billions for warmongering

North America

May 17, 2021

5

Splendour In The Grass 2019 (Image: AAP/Regi Varghese)

Turns out you CAN stop the music (and other news you may have missed)

The Week That Was

Oct 23, 2020

2

(Image: AP/Susan Walsh)

Australia isn’t the only country worried about a US-China war

World

Aug 10, 2020

16

Scott Morrison speaks during the launch of the 2020 Defence Strategic Update (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Does Australia’s big defence spending actually make any sense?

Defence

Jul 08, 2020

9

(Image: AAP/Paul Braven)

Everybody’s (presumably) getting a helicopter! (And other news you may have missed)

The Week That Was

Jun 05, 2020

1

SA Senator Nick Xenophon says Japan's Soryu submarine will likely win the government defence contract, but they may not live up to Abbott's hype, writes <em>InDaily</em> journalist <b>Tom Richardson</b>.

Abbott says Japanese subs ‘best in the world’; Defence disagrees

Australia

May 26, 2015

13

Joe Hockey's pre-budget spinning has veered into outright falsehoods as he attempts to claim Labor has boobytrapped the budget. <b>Bernard Keane</b> and <b>Glenn Dyer</b> report.

Fiscal fools: give us a break on the budget BS, Joe

Economy

Apr 01, 2014

50

It's a good time to be a spy. While Defence spending has been cut in the federal budget, there's more money for secret intelligence. And aid funding gets an increase, despite deferring UN goals.

Foreign affairs: Defence spending down, more aid and spies

Defence

May 15, 2013

2

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