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    • 13 Jun 2023
    • 12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
    • Boathouse by the Lake, ACT
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    Tom Hamilton
    Deputy Secretary Defence Strategic Review Implementation


    Mr Tom Hamilton is Deputy Secretary Defence Strategic Review Implementation, a role he was appointed to in February 2023. In this role, Mr Hamilton is leading the implementation and delivery of the Australian Government’s response to the Defence Strategic Review which aims to prepare Australia to effectively respond to the changing regional and global strategic environment and ensure Defence's capability and structure is fit for purpose and delivers the greatest return on investment.

    Prior to his current role, Mr Hamilton was Director Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) from March 2022 to February 2023, and was responsible for AGO’s operations as an intelligence agency within the National Intelligence Community and the Department of Defence.

    Mr Hamilton joined the Australian Public Service, in the Department of Defence, in 2001. In Defence he has held senior leadership roles in strategic policy, international policy and capability analysis, including as First Assistant Secretary Strategic Policy and a significant period as acting Deputy Secretary Strategic Policy and Intelligence.

    From August 2020 to March 2022, Mr Hamilton was the First Assistant Secretary of the Foreign Investment Division in the Treasury. In this position Mr Hamilton was responsible for leadership of all aspects of foreign investment policy and regulatory operations and was the executive member of the Foreign Investment Review Board.

    In 2019, Mr Hamilton led a review of Defence policy and was author of the consequent 2020 Defence Strategic Update which reset the Australian Government’s strategic defence policy. He was also the principal drafter of the 2016 Defence White Paper.

    From 2009 to 2013, Mr Hamilton served in the Office of the Minister for Defence as a policy adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff.

    From 2004 to 2009, Mr Hamilton served in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet: in the National Security Division with responsibility for defence capability and domestic security polices; and in the Social Policy Division, with responsibility for indigenous and employment services policies.


    • 31 Aug 2023
    • 12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
    • Boathouse by the Lake, ACT
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    • 28 Sep 2023
    • 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
    • National Gallery of Australia, ACT
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    Williams Foundation Conference

    Program: details will be available soon.


    • 30 Nov 2023
    • 12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
    • Boathouse by the Lake, ACT
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Past events

30 Mar 2023 Conference: Sharpening the Edge of Australia’s National Deterrence Capability
23 Feb 2023 Errol McCormack Lunch: MAJGEN Mick Ryan, AM (Ret'd)
14 Feb 2023 Errol McCormack Lunch: Thomas Jones, Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems
28 Nov 2022 Errol McCormack Lunch: National Security at Faster than 5x the Speed of Sound - Steve Walker, Lockheed Martin
09 Nov 2022 Williams Lunch: Timely Perspectives on Indo-Pacific Security, ADM Phil Davidson, USN (ret.)
26 Oct 2022 2022 Annual General Meeting
28 Sep 2022 Conference: Enhancing the Lethality and Survivability of the Integrated Force
31 Aug 2022 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: Dr Miles Apperley, ANSTO
01 Jun 2022 Errol McCormack Members Lunch: The Contribution of F-35A to Australian Air Combat Power
24 Mar 2022 Conference: Accelerating the Transition to a Networked, Integrated Force
02 Mar 2022 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: CDRE Andrew Quinn RAN
01 Dec 2021 Conference: The Requirements of a Sovereign Defence Space Capability
23 Nov 2021 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: The ADF’s Strategy - Where is the force going? Where are the gaps? What are the priorities? AVM Steven ‘Zed’ Roberton, DSC, AM
18 Nov 2021 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: The ADF’s Strategy - Where is the force going? Where are the gaps? What are the priorities? AVM Steven ‘Zed’ Roberton, DSC, AM
05 Oct 2021 Annual General Meeting
19 May 2021 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: Lessons for Australia’s FADT policy from COVID with Senator the Hon. David Fawcett
08 Apr 2021 Conference: Next Generation Autonomous Systems
25 Feb 2021 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: The Australian Defence Force’s Current Operational Commitments - LTGEN Greg Bilton AO, CSC
01 Dec 2020 Errol McCormack Members' Lunch with AIRCDRE Chris Westwood (Ret'd): Characterising the 5th Gen Air Battle Space
28 Oct 2020 Annual General Meeting
20 May 2020 Errol McCormack Lunch Series
26 Feb 2020 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: Air Marshal Warren McDonald, AM, CSC
12 Nov 2019 Williams Foundation Lunch: Advanced Attack Helicopters in the Amphibious Role with LtGen George J. Trautman
24 Oct 2019 Seminar: The Requirements of Fifth Generation Manoeuvre
22 Oct 2019 2019 Annual General Meeting
07 Aug 2019 Williams Foundation Lunch: Coalition Warfighting and Pacific AOR Interoperability with LTG Michael Oates (Ret'd)
16 Jul 2019 Williams Foundation Lunch: Royal Australian Navy: Future vision and Headmark 2022 with VADM Michael Noonan AO RAN, Chief of Navy
07 May 2019 Williams Foundation Members Lunch: Modernising the ADF in a time of Accelerated Warfare - Major General Kathryn Toohey, AM, CSC
11 Apr 2019 Seminar: Hi-Intensity Operations and Sustaining Self Reliance
12 Feb 2019 Williams Foundation Lunch: 5th Generation Workforce with AIRCDRE Geoffrey Harland AM, CSC, DSM
13 Nov 2018 Williams Foundation Lunch: Experiences of an Australian CAOC Director during Operation Okra with Air Vice-Marshal Stephen Meredith, AM, DSM
30 Oct 2018 2018 Annual General Meeting
23 Aug 2018 Seminar: The Imperative for an Independent Deterrent: A Joint Strike Seminar
07 Aug 2018 Williams Foundation Lunch: Australian Defence Industry Small, Medium Enterprises; Plan Jericho Innovation and Opportunity
08 May 2018 Williams Foundation Lunch with Air Commodore Joe ‘Vinny’ Iervasi, AM: Air Warfare Centre — Jericho in Action
22 Mar 2018 Seminar: The Requirements of High Intensity Warfare
13 Feb 2018 Williams Foundation Lunch: Air C2: Lessons from OKRA - Air Commodore Robert Chipman, CSC
31 Oct 2017 2017 Annual General Meeting
23 Aug 2017 Seminar: A New Approach, and Attitude, to Electronic Warfare In Australia
02 Aug 2017 Williams Foundation Lunch: Joint Integration: A Practioner's Perspective - VADM David Johnston AM, RAN
19 Jul 2017 Williams Foundation Lunch: Invictus Games Sydney 2018 Lunch with Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, AC Chief of the Defence Force
20 Jun 2017 Williams Foundation Lunch: A Learning Curve for the Swiss Air Force
11 Apr 2017 Williams Foundation Seminar: Air / Sea / Land: Integrated Force 2030
15 Feb 2017 Williams Foundation Lunch: Air Vice-Marshal Mel Hupfeld AO, DSC
25 Oct 2016 2016 Annual General Meeting
04 Oct 2016 Williams Foundation Lunch: Connecting the ADF: Challenge or Opportunity? Three decades of insights and lessons learned
13 Sep 2016 Williams Foundation Members Lunch: 'Jericho - an Update'
23 Aug 2016 Williams Foundation Members Lunch: 'Where to with CASG' with Kim Gillis
10 Aug 2016 Williams Foundation Seminar: New Thinking on Air-Sea
17 Mar 2016 Williams Foundation Seminar: New Thinking on Air-Land
23 Feb 2016 Williams Foundation Dinner with Lt Gen Christopher Bogdan, United States Air Force
16 Feb 2016 Williams Foundation Members Luncheon: Air Vice-Marshal Warren McDonald, AM, CSC - RAAF Air Mobility
08 Sep 2015 Williams Foundation Members Luncheon: RADM Tony Dalton Romeo Introduction into Service
06 Aug 2015 RAAF Plan Jericho Half Day Public Seminar
10 Jun 2015 Williams Foundation Dinner with Chief of Air Force
03 Jun 2015 LVC Seminar
17 Apr 2015 Symposium: Integrating Innovative Airpower
15 Apr 2015 Williams Foundation Members Luncheon: AIRCDRE Steve "Zed" Roberton AM
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