The good news from the government’s defence announcement in mid-September is that the absurd $90 billion deal between Australia and the French shipbuilder Naval Group to build Australia’s next generation of submarines has met a well-deserved end.
The bad news is that the often disastrous policy of building complex weapons platforms in Adelaide is to continue, even to the point of building nuclear submarines.
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