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David Knox

October 2019

Then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was surrounded by a large contingent of Liberal politicians at the $35b frigates announcement.

Nation building, Navy style

Five years ago, then defence minister David Johnston said he wouldn't trust ASC to build a canoe. Now a massive $90 billion ship-building program centred on Adelaide is transforming the shipyard and the navy. 

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