SO THE government is seriously considering the option to buy the replacements for the Collins Class submarines overseas as the alternative to them being manufactured by the Australian Submarine Corporation in SA. Thank goodness for that.
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Can anyone point to a significant defence project manufactured in SA that has come in on budget and on time in the past 30 years?
And as for the so-called sustainability benefits that would flow from local manufacture, you only have to look at the poor availability of the Collins fleet over the past six years to see that is another furphy about industrial skills resident in SA.
Please, buy our next generation submarines on a value-for-money basis and use some of the money saved to provide seed funding for new employment opportunities in SA that will not ultimately require ongoing taxpayer subsidies to survive.
