2019 Ministerial Statement on Defence Operations
(WorldNews Politics)

Introduction Some six months into my tenure as Minister for Defence, it is my privilege to deliver my first Ministerial Statement on the Defence portfolio. Today I will provide an overview of the global, regional and domestic operations of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Australia`s security environment is the most challenging it has been for many decades. We face an increasingly multipolar and competitive world in which consensus is becoming more difficult to achieve. Today, Defence is in more places, doing more things, at the same time. The ADF deploys integrated capability to support operations globally, regionally and domestically, with some 4,000 ADF service members deployed at any...