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Time to tap the huge investment opportunity of defence private sector

The public and the corporate world now see investment in a secure country as a social good.

Peter Dean and Hayley ChannerPolicy expert

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The Defence Strategic Review called for a broad approach to national security that requires not just a whole-of-government approach, but a whole-of-nation effort too. This has been enthusiastically embraced by the Albanese government. But the federal government must make funding national security more attractive to draw in another arm of Australian power – the private sector.

Public support for defence spending is at its highest since 9/11. ADF

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