Fifty billion dollars could fund the national disability insurance scheme for a couple of years, pay for hospitals, schools, thousands of kilometres of new roads, fix the Great Barrier Reef – or buy a dozen French submarines.
The French bidder for Australia’s future submarines project is using the potential for conversion to a nuclear-powered vessel as a selling point.
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