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If sustainment of the Collins Class submarines goes west, it could set off a cascading chain of lost work for the Adelaide shipyards, writes former state defence industries minister Martin Hamilton-Smith. So why aren’t South Australian politicians fighting harder?
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South Australia’s three major universities will collaborate with France’s central scientific agency and the company chosen to design Australia’s $52 billion Future Submarines to establish a joint defence research laboratory in Adelaide, InDaily can reveal.
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UPDATED | A senior Defence Department official says there is no set percentage for Australian content of the multi-billion-dollar future submarines project, which the Federal Government has long spruiked as a boon for Adelaide’s shipbuilding hub at Osborne.
SA-based shipbuilder ASC has been directed to investigate a series of options for shifting hundreds of jobs involved in Collins Class submarine maintenance to Western Australia – including one as early as 2022, federal parliament heard today.
The French designer building Australia’s new fleet of submarines will take lessons from a missing Argentinian vessel.
South Australian-based shipbuilder ASC has thrown down the gauntlet to the Commonwealth Government over the continued “depletion” of its Adelaide workforce, with chairman Bruce Carter warning shipbuilding sovereignty will be compromised by an approach that “hopes for the best” while driving down skilled capacity.
