About this Submission

This submission to the Defence First Principles Review is made by Australian Business Defence Industry (ABDI) in addition to the ABDI submission to the Defence White Paper (DWP) 2015. At its DWP 2015 submission ABDI advocated the need for a conceptual framework defence industry policy based on three “framing and guiding principles” (the external view) and three “industrial themes” (the internal view). The proposed framework is designed to provide a structure within which defence industry can grow over the longer term in a manner most aligned with the attainment of national strategic goals. The resultant local defence industry capabilities would therefore be most relevant to prevailing and emerging strategic circumstances.