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Sink or swim in defence debate

25 September 2021

9:00 AM

25 September 2021

9:00 AM

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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