The ANZUS treaty does not make Australia safer. Rather, it fuels a fear of perpetual military threat
- Written by Emma Shortis, Research Fellow, RMIT University
In June 2020, the Australian federal government announced a new, A$270 billion defence strategy. Part of this entailed spending $800 million on new AGM-158C long-range anti-ship missiles from the United States.
The new spend formed part of a long tradition of Australian defence procurement from the US. In 2017, the Australian National Audit Office...





