’Huge waste’ of defence budget to build AUKUS-class submarines in Australia
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Former foreign minister Alexander Downer believes that building AUKUS-class submarines in Adelaide is a “huge waste” of Australia’s defence budget. “In time the AUKUS-class submarine…will be built, we may as well just buy them off the shelf from the UK where they already have the capacity to build nuclear submarines rather than spending a 30 per cent or 40 per cent premium building them in Adelaide,” Mr Downer told News24 host Chris Kenny. “Give South Australia some compensatory money, but honestly, it’s just a huge waste of the defence budget to be building the submarines here in Australia. “We don’t build F-35s in Australia for good reason. “When it comes to defence, focus on defence, don’t focus on votes in Adelaide suburbs.”
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