What is the role of the Australia Defence Association?

Our primary mission is to represent the long-term public interest in helping ensure Australia is strategically secure and adequately defended.

Our secondary mission is to represent the long-term public interest by helping Australian governments to tackle their wider national security responsibilities holistically and adequately.

We believe that a vigorous, healthy and informed public debate on strategic security, defence and wider national security issues is a vital component of Australian democratic society — including an informed, appropriate and practical balance between potentially competing public finance, community security and civil liberties requirements.

How we try to represent the long-term public interest is explained in the detailed answers in this section.