Former foreign minister says building nuclear submarines at South Australian shipyard will ‘drain the national economy’
Alexander Downer has questioned the central plank of the Aukus plan which would take place after Australia acquired US Virginia-class submarines.Alexander Downer has questioned the central plank of the Aukus plan which would take place after Australia acquired US Virginia-class submarines.to build nuclear submarines in Adelaide has been labelled “a fairytale” and “pork barrelling” by Alexander Downer, Australia’s longest serving foreign minister.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupwarning the sale of between three and five Virginia-class boats to Australia in the 2030s “would reduce the number of attack submarines available to the Navy”. The report said US shipyards were already “struggling” to meet existing demand.
“But when you’re talking of, in this particular case, hundreds of billions of dollars, then you have to realise that this sort of pork barrelling is having a pretty negative effect on the national economy.”
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