Government considers establishment of domestic manufacturing as review warns Australia’s military capability structured for ‘a bygone era’
Australia will seek to project military power further from its shores after a review warned the Australian defence force was structured for “a bygone era” and the security environment was “radically different”.
The Albanese government has also opened the door to potential changes to the number of Hunter class frigates and offshore patrol vessels to be purchased by Australia, with a snap review of the navy’s surface fleet needs to report back later this year. The review called for a renewed focus on “how we manage and seek to avoid the highest level of strategic risk we now face as a nation: the prospect of major conflict in the region that directly threatens our national interest”.
In a new “national defence statement”, the government said these aims were grounded in the view that the defence of Australia “lies in the collective security of the Indo-Pacific”. Smith and Houston’s full report remains classified but the government prepared a public version of the report.This report said that in the late stages of the cold war, Australia faced no direct military threat.
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