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The Defence Strategic Policy and Intelligence Group (SP&I) of the Australian Government Department of Defence is responsible for defence diplomacy, strategic policy, international security, and military intelligence co-ordination and advice to the Prime Minister of Australia, Minister for Defence, Secretary of the Department of Defence, and Chief of the Defence Force. [1]
In September 2024, Stuart released "Australian Army Contribution to the National Defence Strategy 2024", indicating that army had moved from being a balanced force, to a force focused on operating in littoral zones to Australia's via land, sea and air; and using long-range fires. [28] [29]
The Defence Committee is the primary decision-making committee in the Department of Defence, supported by six subordinate committees, groups and boards. The Defence Committee is focused on major capability development and resource management for the Australian Defence Organisation and shared accountability of the Secretary and the Chief of the Defence Force.
Entities within Defence report to the Minister for Defence, but the defence minster's portfolio and ADO are not identical, for example the Department of Veterans' Affairs reports to the defence minister but is not part of Defence. [8] For the 2024-25 financial year, as estimated in the Defence Portfolio Budget Statement prepared as part of the ...
[165] [166] On 10 December 2022, Australia's Minister for Defence announced their desire for Japan to join the partnership. [ 167 ] On 14 March 2023, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio expressed his support for Australia's planned acquisition of US-made nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS partnership.
In April 2024 ASPI's executive director claimed that the Chinese government had directed hackers to attack the institute in an attempt to "punish and intimidate" it. [51] Varghese made a number of statements concerning ASPI in his 2024 Independent Review of Commonwealth funding for strategic policy work. He found that ASPI had published "some ...
In June 2024, the government announced a new policy to grow the ADF as outlined in the National Defence Strategy released in April 2024. [ 163 ] [ 164 ] Under the policy, permanent residents who have lived in Australia for 12 months from countries in the Five Eyes alliance will become eligible to join the ADF.
In addition to her role in writing and implementing the 2022 National Defense Strategy, Karlin guided the AUKUS agreement between the US, UK, and Australia, which, according to a speech by President Biden, is meant to help in "developing Australia’s conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarine capacity" [23]