China is not the urgent threat; climate change is

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October China is not the urgent threat; climate change is 22/10/2020 | 4 MINS This article was first published by Pearls & Irritations - Public Policy Journal, written by Professor Mark Beeson. Spending priorities by the federal government are increasingly questionable, if not indefensible; they raise fundamental questions about the competence and intelligence of our policymaking elites. Australian security policy generally, and the saga about replacing the nationΓÇÖs submarines in particular, highlight all that is short-sighted and misguided about the priorities of Australian policymakers. Brian TooheyΓÇÖs recent forensic analysis of strategic thinking and defence spending details the astoundingly costly errors of planning and basic due diligence that will saddle long-suffering taxpayers with an unnecessary burden for decades. The repeated basic policy failures and cost overruns by the defence department exemplify wider problems in the priorities and thinking of strategic and policy elites in the Canberra bubble. Not only are the new sub

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October China is not the urgent threat; climate change is 22/10/2020 | 4 MINS This article was first published by Pearls & Irritations - Public Policy Journal, written by Professor Mark Beeson.

Spending priorities by the federal government are increasingly questionable, if not indefensible; they raise fundamental questions about the competence and intelligence of our policymaking elites.

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