Why $50b submarines show we need a check on Canberra: Judges
The federal election was just two months away in April 2016 when the Turnbull government announced it would award a $50 billion contract to build 12 submarines in South Australia to a French company.
The deal "left the government open to criticisms of pork barrelling", said The Australian Financial Review's Laura Tingle. Taxpayers would have been "billions of dollars better off" had the government simply hired South Australia's submarine workers "to do nothing", instead of "making grossly overpriced submarines", this paper's then economics editor Alan Mitchell suggested.
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