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Report
New Zealand, Australia and the ANZUS alliance: interests, identity and strategy
With the strategic balance teetering in the Asia–Pacific, a more cold-hearted assessment of the Australia – New Zealand alliance is needed.
Briefing paper
The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2017-2018
This report gives interested readers greater access to the complex workings of the Defence Budget and promotes informed debate on Defence budget issues.
Report
ASPI at 15
Overview ASPI was registered as a wholly government-owned company on 22 August 2001, but it was several years earlier when Ian McLachlan, the first Defence Minister of the Howard government, saw the need to establish an institute to provide an alternate source of advice on...
Report
Agenda for change 2016: strategic choices for the next government
Overview The defence of Australia's interests is a core business of federal governments. Regardless of who wins the election on July 2, the incoming government will have to grapple with a wide range of security issues. This report provides a range of perspectives on selected...
Report
The cost of Defence: ASPI Defence budget brief 2016-2017
This report gives interested readers greater access to the complex workings of the Defence budget and promotes informed debate on Defence budget issues. Introduction And so it begins. Not with a bang but with a whimper. Despite the fanfare accompanying the release of the 2016...