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Big Bird’s submarine choice

Political self interest threatens our national security and the safety of our submariners

25 July 2015

9:00 AM

25 July 2015

9:00 AM

Here’s a multiple-choice game. It’s from Sesame Street, and it’s for the Chief of Defence to present to the Abbott Cabinet. The ‘one of these things’ refrain is usually sung together, but we’re talking about Air Chief Marshall Binskin, not Big Bird, and we needn’t overdo the sarcasm.

One of these things is not like the others:

A- Our new submarine fleet must be designed to secure distant sea lanes of trade and communication;

B- Our new submarine fleet must be built to secure the lives of our submariners through world’s best submergence capacity and noise minimization;

C- Our new submarines must secure technological...

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