TY - Report AU - Ross Babbage AU - Allan Behm AU - Michael Clifford AU - et al. PY - 2015 T1 - Reviews and contestability: new directions for Defence PB - Australian Strategic Policy Institute DO - https://doi.org/APO-54848 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/54848 AB - Overview: The First Principles Review of Defence is arguably the most significant review of the defence establishment since the 1973 re-organisation led by Sir Arthur Tange. This Strategic Insights brings together a series of contributions to ASPI’s blog The Strategist written by ten experts with long experience and broad knowledge of Australia’s defence bureaucracy. They bring a wealth of different perspectives and point to significant challenges ahead for Defence if the reforms proposed by the First Principles Review are to succeed. ER -