Welcome to the Australia Defence Association. (www.ada.asn.au)
Our role
Since 1975 the ADA has been Australia's only truly independent and staunchly non-partisan public-interest watchdog organisation and 'think-tank' covering:
- 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 parliamentary, ministerial and governmental accountability for the effective formulation and execution of strategic and wider national security policy.
This includes the consequent capabilities, tasking and operations of:
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the Australian Defence Force, and
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Australia's six intelligence and security-intelligence agencies.
It also involves monitoring and assisting the effectiveness of their supporting departments.
Who we areWhat we doWhat we believeWhat we supportUpdates
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Sourcing Governor-Generals
Some discussion about filling the office of Governor-General has been sidetracked by desired diversity… -
Getting the priorities right
Our war veterans need practical help, not just "thanks". Especially when such gestures risk becoming… -
Justified army crackdown on unprofessional symbology not "political correctness"
Contrived ideological furore and media sensationalism is obscuring the point of principle actually involved.… -
Respecting John Monash by respecting his actual record
Calls to promote General Sir John Monash posthumously to field marshal are invalid because they ignore… -
Mistaken editing by the "The Australian"
Correction to the result of mistaken editing of an ADA letter-to-the-editor published on 14 April 2018… -
"Anzackery": A draft dictionary definition
Some commemorations of the 100th anniversary of World War I ending continue to suffer from Anzackery. -
Posthumously promoting Sir John Monash is invalid, ahistoric and unnecessary
Overly focusing on Monash demeans both him and the 1st AIF as a highly successful team-based and adaptable…