In April 2023, Australia released its Defence Strategic Review,1 called the biggest overhaul in decades for national security, which fails to mention gender equality or women even once in its 116 pages. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation [full title added] (‘ASIO’) Director-General only mentions gender issues once in the 2023 Threat Assessment, in the context of threats, stating that ‘the defence employees approached in a Canberra bar by two women who wanted to know everything there is to know about Pine Gap’.