Welcome to the Australia Defence Association. (www.ada.asn.au)
Our role
Since 1975 the ADA has been Australia's only truly independent and non-partisan public-interest watchdog and 'think-tank' on strategic security, defence and wider national security issues.
Defending the long-term public interest
We seek to represent the long-term public interest in helping ensure Australia is strategically and domestically secure.
Including that current and future Australians are adequately defended.
Our public-interest oversight primarily focuses on ministerial, governmental and parliamentary accountability for the effective formulation and execution of strategic and wider national security policy.
Including the consequent capabilities, tasking and operations of the Australian Defence Force and Australia's six intelligence and security agencies – and the effectiveness of their supporting departments.
Who we areWhat we doWhat we believeWhat we supportUpdates
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Conscientious objection to war as a model for resolving other contentious moral dilemmas
The long-established principle of conscientious objection to participation in war surely provides an… -
Keeping a sense of perspective about the ADF Inspector-General Inquiry into our Special Forces
Incorrect media claims of "war crimes" when describing potential disciplinary misbehaviour, or even… -
Properly ministering to our defence force
Appropriate ministerial supervision of the Defence portfolio has long faced significant structural barriers… -
ADF contingent in Mardi Gras parade marching in defence force uniform breaches non-partisanship principle
Our democracy is buttressed by Australia having a non-political defence force. Consistent care needs… -
Contemporary lessons from the Fall of Singapore
Why the Fall-of-Singapore occurred has enduring lessons for Australia's future strategic security. We… -
Trump panic showing the extent of misunderstandings about the nature and purpose of the Australia-US alliance
Australia-US alliance is strong, tested, geo-strategically logical and irreplaceable. It is not personality-based,… -
The non-partisanship convention is clearly breached when the ADF contingent in the gay mardi-gras parade wears defence force uniform ("Overnights", 2GB, 27 January 2017)
The parade includes numerous floats and activities that are deliberately politically contentious. Participation…