I think that every year we delay these decisions, we're increasing costs and creating greater inefficiencies for ourselves. I'd say that while it would be nice to have a whole-of-government analysis of everything, I think we need to get straight the defence picture. For these kinds of decisions, I'd say focus on including some people from foreign affairs. They have an assessment of the threats, because assessing the threats around the world is not purely a defence thing; it's a foreign affairs thing as well. I'd say get a better picture of what we think the threats are 10, 20, 30 years out, and what our commitments are.
Our commitments are very clear actually. I don't think we have to rethink NORAD or NATO. We have to think about what the implications of those are, since we are now spending money and time with sailing our ships from the Arab gulf all the way up to the Black Sea or the Baltic. We don't know actually where the ship is going, but we're spending money sending planes to Romania. That costs money.