The Defence Dividend
In 2025 the Australian Government introduced significant reforms to the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs), lowering procurement thresholds for economic benefit assessments, strengthening preferences for local businesses, and formally defining “Australian business” in procurement policy.
The Sovereign Australian Prime Alliance (SAPA) tasked DeltaPearl Partners to set out arguments for and against stronger preferences for Australian defence suppliers (services and materiel) in Australian Government procurement using robust, quantitative evidence. Both government and industry have expressed an interest in understanding the actual economic returns that might be gained from a relative increase of procurement spending with Australian defence suppliers, hence the completion of this analysis.