Placeholder data. This is the phase 1 shell — every figure on this page is
illustrative and not yet sourced. Phase 2 replaces it with real AusTender
contract data and Australian Bureau of Statistics multipliers; phase 3 adds
a regional impact model with labour-market and industrial-capacity
constraints, not a flat ratio. See Method for what's
being built and Open data for what's already documented.
Defence budget · industry · economy
Overview
What the Australian Defence budget buys, which industries and regions it reaches, and what it produces for the economy.
From appropriation to contracts
Contract notices see only part of the Defence budget. The rest is personnel, operating costs, Foreign Military Sales and unattributed spend. Every figure on this site sits inside this reconciliation.
Contract-visible spend over time
The shaded band is the uncertainty interval. No point estimate ships without one.