An increasingly assertive China in the Indo-Pacific and a volatile US President Donald Trump means that when it comes to national security, Australia has had to step up, and fast.
Defence white papers, which outline a 20-year horizon for defending the nation and its strategic interests, have come thick and fast in the past decade, with three released between 2009 and 2016.
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