Advisory panel announced to oversee DSR results

Geopolitics & Policy

29 May 2023

By: Robert Dougherty

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Hon Richard Marles MP, The Prime Minister of Australia The Hon Anthony Albanese MP, The Hon. Pat Conroy MP the Minister for Defence Industry, Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Chief of the Defence Force, General Angus Campbell AO, DSC, and The Department of Defence Secretary, Mr Greg Moriarty at Australian Parliament House, Canberra for the released the public version of the Defence Strategic Review. Photo: Jay Cronan.

The Australian federal government has announced an external advisory panel to oversee the implementation of the Defence Strategic Review recommendations.

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The external advisory panel will provide an independent assessment of Defence’s progress, in accordance with government direction and the intent of the recommendations.

The panel will report biannually to government and be formed by former secretary of the Department of Defence Dennis Richardson, former secretary of the Department of Finance Rosemary Huxtable, and former deputy secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Richard Maude.

The panel will be co-chaired by the DSR independent leads Stephen Smith and Sir Angus Houston.

“The appointment of the expert advisory panel reflects the government’s commitment to the implementation of the Defence Strategic Review,” Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said.

“Realising the Review’s ambition requires major reform. It is appropriate that such significant reform is accompanied by an independent assessment of progress and challenges as we undertake this important task.”

For more information about the DSR, senior analyst Steve Kuper joins Liam Garman to unpack the document’s key findings in the Defence Connect podcast, as well as illuminating areas for revision amid increasing global uncertainty.