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  • Top SA executive to lead national Defence shipbuilding

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    Jim McDowell was appointed SA’s most senior public servant by former Premier Steven Marshall in 2018, after previously leading BAE Systems Australia and serving as UniSA Chancellor. For the past two years, McDowell has been chief executive officer of homegrown global defence company Nova Systems. Now he takes on the mantle of Deputy Secretary Naval…

  • PM visits UK AUKUS subs shipyard

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    “We’re talking about the most sophisticated manufacturing task on the planet, which is why it has to be got right,” Albanese said during a visit to the port town of Barrow-in-Furness on Wednesday. Australia and the UK will both build the new nuclear-powered military submarines, known as SSN-AUKUS, with Australian personnel picking up skills that will…

  • Sub commander’s secret missions under the seas

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    It’s been 17 years since Keough commanded the nation’s HMAS Waller and HMAS Sheean submarines, but it still feels like the distinguished naval veteran is firmly in control of his surroundings as he sips a macchiato at a Hutt Street café. There is an unassuming self-assurance about the now managing director of defence company Saab…

  • Why there is no hard limit on what the government can spend on subs

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    Australia’s decision to buy three nuclear-powered submarines and build another eight is so expensive that, for the A$268 billion to $368 billion price tag, we could give a million dollars to every resident of Geelong, or Hobart, or Wollongong. Those are the sort of examples used by former NSW treasury secretary Percy Allan on the…

  • Downer torpedoes Adelaide subs build plan

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    Downer, who held the Adelaide Hills seat of Mayo and served as federal Liberal Party leader, Foreign Minister from 1996-2007 and then as Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK, made the comments in an opinion piece published in The Advertiser on Tuesday. Downer said he was both “enthusiastic and yet pessimistic” about last week’s AUKUS…

  • ‘Nothing to be feared’: Premier says no nuclear headaches for neighbours

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    Malinauskas has not yet discussed the issue with Port Adelaide Enfield Council or residents living near the site where nuclear reactors for new submarines will be delivered, but said houses in the north-west town in England he visited last week were sited close to nuclear submarine construction yards. Ever since the AUKUS pact and decision…

  • Nuclear waste not, want not

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    Dan Andrews is right about the spent nuclear fuel from the submarine program. It should be stored in South Australia – and while we’re at it, we should store other countries’ spent fuel as well. It’s an opportunity we should welcome with open arms. Storing spent fuel is safe, straightforward and, as the 2016 Royal…

  • Australia to spend $1 billion on US cruise missiles

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    The Pentagon has approved the sale of 220 of the missiles at a cost of $1.3 billion in a deal that will also include technical support. The sale of the missiles follows the announcement of Australia acquiring multiple nuclear submarines under the US-UK alliance at a cost of up to $368 billion. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles…

  • Defence industry ‘unrest’ over long wait for submarine work

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    Doubt over the looming work void is clouding industry reaction to Tuesday’s announcement of the deal to buy and build nuclear submarines in a deal set to cost taxpayers up to $368 billion. As Premier Peter Malinauskas left for the United Kingdom yesterday “to immediately capitalise on the AUKUS submarine partnership”, DTC chief executive officer…

  • Targeting subs’ long-term nuclear waste impact

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    Within ten years, Australia could be in possession of three American-made Virginia-class nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement with the United States and United Kingdom. The following decade, we plan to build five next-generation nuclear submarines. To date, criticism of the deal has largely focused on whether our unstable geopolitical environment and China’s military investment…