Tuesday, October 28, 2014

I sense a one term government

The AFR is saying this:
An international competition will be staged to buy new submarines for Australia with the fleet to be largely built offshore confirming a blow to South Australian jobs.
This is (apparently) what the defence minister said before the election:

“We will deliver those submarines from right here at ASC in South Australia. The Coalition today is committed to building 12 new submarines here in Adelaide.”
Senator Johnston, Press Conference, 8 May 2013.


Given the departure of other manufacturing in South Australia, I would like to know what industries the Abbott government thinks are likely to fill the void in an already financially moribund State; given they are doing their best to also kill renewable energy.   

1 comment:

nottrampis said...

Governments in their first term lie all the time.

My concern with this is that the Jap submarines are apparently not really good for our terrain!