Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched Australia’s first National Security Strategy on 23 January 2013.
Strong and Secure: A Strategy for Australia’s National Security marks a new national security era in which the dramatic shift of economic and strategic weight to Asia dominates our national security outlook over this decade.
The Strategy provides the overarching framework to guide Australia’s national security efforts over the next five years.
PDF available at: Australian Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet
Read the response of Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI): National Security - the decade after the decade before
Read the response of Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI): National Security - the decade after the decade before