Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 17 hours ago
This session focused on the whole-of-government challenges in delivering the current National Defence Strategy (NDS) and identified how the key tools of national power and statecraft — defence, foreign and domestic security — could be better integrated to deliver the next NDS and Integrated Investment Program.
Speakers included Andrew Downes, Vice President, Strategy and Communications, Thales, Hamish Hansford, Deputy Secretary, Cyber and Infrastructure Security, Department of Home Affairs, Katrina Di Marco, Acting Deputy Secretary, International and Foreign Investment Group, to the Australian Treasury and Matt Yannopoulos, Acting Secretary, Department of Defence. The session was moderated by Lieutenant General (Ret’d) John Frewen AO, DSC, Senior Fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
This session focused on the whole-of-government challenges in delivering the current National Defence Strategy (NDS) and identified how the key tools of national power and statecraft — defence, foreign and domestic security — could be better integrated to deliver the next NDS and Integrated Investment Program.
Speakers included Andrew Downes, Vice President, Strategy and Communications, Thales, Hamish Hansford, Deputy Secretary, Cyber and Infrastructure Security, Department of Home Affairs, Katrina Di Marco, Acting Deputy Secretary, International and Foreign Investment Group, to the Australian Treasury and Matt Yannopoulos, Acting Secretary, Department of Defence. The session was moderated by Lieutenant General (Ret’d) John Frewen AO, DSC, Senior Fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
