The most striking feature of the 2013 Defence White Paper is the growing gap between Australia’s strategic policy aspirations and the crunch in defence spending, according to Professor Andrew O’Neil in an opinion piece in the Lowy Institute’s ‘The Interpreter’. Article can be found at: http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/05/06/Defence-White-Paper-pulls-its-punches-on-China.aspx?p=true
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