Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
The Committee presented its Report Funding Australia's Defence to the Presiding Officers on 8 May 1998, and tabled in the House of Representatives on 12 May 1998 and in the Senate on 13 May 1998. Copies of the the individual chapters of the report are available in both PDF and HTML format or from the Committee Secretariat.
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List of Recommendations (PDF Format 5KB)
Chapter 1: Introduction (PDF Format 15KB)
Chapter 2: The Mechanics of Funding for Defence (PDF Format 33KB)
Chapter 3: Defence Funding in Context (PDF Format 45KB)
Chapter 4: Defence and Efficiency (PDF Format 33KB)
Chapter 5: Strategic Considerations (PDF Format 30KB)
Chapter 6: The Defence Position (PDF Format 7KB)
Chapter 7: Personnel (PDF Format 46KB)
Chapter 8: Investment (PDF Format 23KB)
Chapter 9: Operating Costs (PDF Format17KB )
Chapter 10: Other Funding Pressures (PDF Format 16KB)
Chapter 11: Arguments for Decreases to Defence Funding Level (PDF Format 15KB)
Chapter 12: Evaluation (PDF Format 19KB)
Dissenting Report: Senator Dee Margetts (PDF Format 31KB)
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