Labor’s Plan for Defence

With responsibility for an area of over 27 million square kilometres, but with less than one per cent of the world’s population, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has to be both agile and smart to carry out the tasks the community expects of it:

Defending our people, our territory, and our interests.
Contributing to multinational forces in defence of security and stability in our neighbourhood and further afield.
Providing assistance during natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies at home and abroad.

These are long-standing responsibilities for Defence, but the world in which they are carried out is changing ever more rapidly. And in a changing world, Australia’s defence force cannot stand still, or it will risk being left behind.

Federal Labor has ended the decade-long gap in strategic analysis and defence reform to create a smarter, stronger, and more adaptable organisation that can defend Australia, our people, and our interests, in today’s rapidly evolving world.

Labor Defence Plan Fact Sheet