Well thirty years or so of acting against the wishes of all but kooks crooks and conmen is working out exactly as it only could.
Looters have done ok.

Maybe the submarine building program - principally a car factory replacement Federal Government GRANT to South Australia

- should produce 24 submarines instead of only 12.

We don't have the captains or crews to man the current 6, let alone 12, but who cares!

I'll go out on a limb here. Those subs will never get built. They're due to get wet around 2035. Obsolete before they hit the water.

Malcolm,

Common sense says you are right; but, when did common sense interfere with political shenanigans?

We talking about the Malcolm class subs?

I'm from SA originally but I won't go back there to live. Marshall is cock-a-hoop over their wind and solar but fails to mention that 47% of their internal electricity generation is from dwindling gas supplies. Meanwhile Olympic Dam currently the world's second most productive uranium mine generates about 200 Twh of clean electricity overseas while SA uses a gas tainted 12 Twh per year.

SA's sense of entitlement knows no bounds. They sooled a commission onto upstream MDB water users while last summer the lower Murray lakes lost an estimated 1,000 GL from seepage and evaporation. That was enabled by the manmade locks from the sea. Now with that under their belts they want to pump freshwater to the salty lagoon called the Coorong. Too bad about upstream water users losing their livelihoods. SA needs to get real about a few things.