Riyaz ul Khaliq<\/p>\n
15 April 2026\u2022Update: 15 April 2026<\/p>\n
Citing the continued erosion of international norms, Australia announced that it will boost its defense spending by $37 billion over the next decade.<\/p>\n
The announcement is part of the 2026 National Defence Strategy, which is set to be released on Thursday, Australian broadcaster ABC News reported.<\/p>\n
Canberra\u2019s new defense spending plans will bring it to roughly 3% of the country\u2019s GDP by 2033.<\/p>\n
The strategy \u201caffirms that Australia faces its most complex and threatening strategic circumstances since the end of World War II,\u201d according to excerpts from a speech by Defense Minister Richard Marles.<\/p>\n
\u201cInternational norms that once constrained the use of force and military coercion continue to erode.<\/p>\n
“More countries are engaged in conflict today than at any time since the end of World War II, and this is occurring across every region of the world,\u201d according to the speech to be delivered Thursday.<\/p>\n
Australia spent around $37 billion on defense during the 2024-25 fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riyaz ul Khaliq 15 April 2026\u2022Update: 15 April 2026 Citing the continued erosion of international norms, Australia announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,296002],"class_list":["post-608809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608809","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=608809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}