There are many worrying things about Malcolm Turnbull’s submarine announcement. There is the 50 billion dollar price tag. There is the report indicating that the cost is possibly 40 per cent greater than it would have been were the submarines manufactured overseas. There is the possibility that, like all great South Australian building projects, the costs are going to blowout massively – like the hospital, and the highway, and the oval.
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