Australia should overhaul the way it makes national security decisions to ensure bipartisan support for long-term undertakings like AUKUS.
Australia’s more complex and competitive national security environment will present Canberra with tougher choices and more of them. To improve its decisions, the government should invite relevant shadow ministers into a bipartisan Advisory National Security Council .
Australia needs a mechanism that can enable positive bilateralism while reducing the incentives to weaponise national security for short-term political gain. An Advisory National Security Council need not have such authority, but just as the AWC oversaw the war effort, the ANSC would help manage Australia’s engagement in competition short of war. It would also establish structures and habits that would become crucial in event of a conflict.
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has few of the powers of its US Congressional counterparts.The bipartisanship of the US Congressional intelligence committees is unfortunately breaking down but that is another reason for Australia to establish institutions that get ahead of partisanship.
Rather, the ANSC would better identify areas of substantial agreement and more clearly delineate issues that are contested and should be openly debated.
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