Event: An Address by General Angus Campbell, Chief of the Defence Force
Lowy Institute
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The Dangers of Trimming Up to 15% From Defence's Supportment Budgets
The AFR reports that program managers in defence have been told to trim up to 15% from their sustainment budgets across the ADF. Is there a danger there? Can the ADF manage this? Can it do it without robbing Peter to pay Paul as it were? So I am not going to either confirm or deny the commentary in the newspaper but I will emphasise that we are an accountable instrument of government accountability in part for the expenditure that we utilise each year from the nation's treasure. And so we are always, always looking for how to do things more efficiently and how to be more effective in the way that we do them.
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