Budget increase to Australia’s Defence funding
The government has released its 2016 White Paper, and it comes with some boosts to Australia’s Defence funding. One of the big questions is about the submarines Australia’s been looking at building and with the threat of Islamic State, it’s interesting to see what Australia’s intending to do with its military budget.
Dr Andrew Carr, a Research Fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University joined presenter Sam Baran to tell us more.
Sam begun by asking why the White Paper shows that Australia has a bigger military budget this year compared to the previous years.
Producer: Jack Smith
