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Sovereignty.

Fortress Australia: a defence force sized to the geography it has to defend. DFAT dissolved; four diplomatic posts that matter. Immigration capped at a level the country can house, train, and absorb.

87,500
Active Army personnel
4
Diplomatic posts
60–80K
Permanent NOM/year ceiling
$1.1T · $1.83T
capital · 20-yr programme

Sovereignty is the cluster of choices that determine whether the country's future is decided in Canberra or somewhere else. The defence policy says the country defends itself. The foreign-affairs policy says the country pursues its own interests. The immigration policy says the country sets its own population trajectory. Each is calibrated to the others.

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