The lost decade
Australia should buy or lease a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to replace the calamitous Collins Class boats nearing the end of their working lives’. So wrote Greg Sheridan in the Australian just over ten years ago, in July 2011, in response to the then-Gillard government’s announcement of an inquiry into our submarine fleet and why very often only one out of six of them was available.
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Mark Higgie was Tony Abbott’s defence advisor 2010-2013 @markhiggie1
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