”Australia's highest defence plans - each of which has claimed to be a 'major shake-up' of basic strategic assumptions - have a lifespan of around 1000 days. As a consequence, the single biggest financial risk to Australian defence industry right now is not the workforce shortage. It is not supply chain constraints; not even the time and money invested in unsuccessful bids for defence contracts. The biggest risk to industry is actually winning a government contract, and then having that contract fall to a strategic review. In other words, the greatest risk to industry in this country is government. And as industry ultimately deliver capability to the ADF, government has become its own greatest capability risk.”