TY  - Report

AU  - Mark Thomson



PY  - 2012
T1  - Crying poor? The affordability of defence expenditure
PB  - Australian Strategic Policy Institute


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-30267
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/30267

AB  - The  May budget saw deep cuts made to Australia's defence budget over the  next few years. It will be up to next year's Defence White Paper to  decide what happens after that.
It has been argued that the  long-term cost of health and ageing will place further pressures on  government finances and constrain defence spending in the decades ahead.  But while social spending will undoubtedly rise, so too will  Australia's prosperity and capacity to pay.
ER  -