{"id":470087,"date":"2026-02-10T07:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470087\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:05:14","slug":"australias-defence-budget-a-sugar-hit-followed-by-a-2-6-billion-cut-take-that-mr-trump-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470087\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Defence budget: a sugar hit followed by a $2.6 billion cut. Take that, Mr Trump, sir!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rss.com\/podcasts\/the-grumpy-strategists\/2538878\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia\u2019s defence budget update: a sugar hit fol | RSS.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grumpy Strategists pan for gold in 234 pages of dense, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defence.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-02\/2025-26-Portfolio-Additional-Estimates-Statements-Defence-Portfolio.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">incoherent Government paperwork<\/a> setting out the Albanese Government\u2019s revised plans for our nation\u2019s defence, and find some rather smelly nuggets. About $3.2 billion dollars is being brought forward to be spent earlier than planned \u2013 with a $1.2 billion chunk on more bills for those still distant AUKUS subs. But the overall Defence budget for this next 4 years is being <a href=\"https:\/\/strategicanalysis.org\/defences-2025-26-budget-update-billions-spent-earlier-but-billions-go-out-the-back-door\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cut by $2.6 billion<\/a>. Mr Albanese may have smiled at US President Donald Trump, but he\u2019s stood strong against pressure to grow defence spending and got Treasury\u2019s razor gang in instead. Canadian PM Carney might make rousing speeches at Davos opposing the Trump Administration, but Mr Albanese acts. It\u2019s a great day for independent middle powers! Oh, and the Defence bureaucracy finds a way to insult King Charles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s defence budget update: a sugar hit fol | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists pan for gold in 234&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,201363,180293,44,3281],"class_list":{"0":"post-470087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-defence-budget","11":"tag-marles","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}