What is the ADAs Role?
Our primary mission is to represent the long-term public interest in helping ensure Australia is adequately defended. Our secondary mission is to represent the long-term public interest by helping Australian governments to tackle their wider national security responsibilities adequately. How we try to represent the long-term public interest is explained in the detailed answers on this page.
Our primary mission is to represent the long-term public interest in helping ensure Australia is adequately defended. Our secondary mission is to represent the long-term public interest by helping Australian governments to tackle their wider national security responsibilities adequately. We believe that a vigorous, healthy and informed public debate on defence and wider national security issues is a vital component of Australian democratic society ― including an informed, appropriate and practical balance between potentially competing public finance, community security and civil liberties requirements. How we try to represent the long-term public interest is explained in the detailed answers on this page.
