Toward Programme
Australia is building green industries. Defence could make them strategic
ASPI The Strategist Institutional·2026-10-08AUS DefenceP1: Resource SovereigntyP3: Industrial BaseP2: Fiscal Engine
Why it matters
The article proposes using Defence procurement as a demand-side anchor for green-industry maturation, targeting $100bn+ in annual economic value across low-carbon fuels and green steel—directly supporting Pillar 1 (Resource Sovereignty) and Pillar 3 (Industrial Base). By coupling military technical requirements with civilian-sector scale, the strategy embeds strategic decoupling from commodity-price volatility and energy-supply dependency, reducing exposure to disruption scenarios while building dual-use capacity.
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