The Recurring Issues from Australian Civil-Military Responses 1977 – 2022 report (The Report) involved conducting a meta-analysis of the findings in documentation that addresses Australian civil-military responses to domestic and international crises from 1997-2022. The 26-year period in question of 1997-2022 was chosen because it captures some of Australia’s major overseas contributions as part of Timor-Leste’s transition to independence from Indonesia, to deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Solomon Islands, plus humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) activities in the Pacific. The analysis includes contemporary domestic crisis responses using ADF support such as bushfires, flooding and the COVID-19 pandemic.
