Author: WARD, Michael B.
Title: The Regional Concentration of Defence Spending: Issues, Implications and Policies Concerning Defence Infrastructure Development in Australia.
Description: The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1986. Paperback. Condition vg. "Cross-country and regional defence spending objectives are reviewed and attempts to realise change in Australia's Defence infrastructure netweork, through closure and reduction in activity are discussed. In the process, the author examines the budgetary, political, economic and institutional obstacles to change; previous attempts to realise change; and the adverse impacts caused by infrastructure readjustment upon the community". Scarce. Out of print, Part of the Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 38. 131pp.

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