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It's one thing to build war fighting capability, it's another to build industrial capability

  • Written by Graeme Dunk, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
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Amid fanfare last week at the start of the new financial year the government promised to invest A$270 billion over a decade to upgrade the defence force.

It said a side benefit would be a stronger local defence industry and “more high-tech Australian jobs”.

The prime minister’s statement hastened to add that it was...

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