rache,
My gut feeling tells me that the cancellation of the French subs has nothing whatsoever to do with technology !
When one looks at France now what do you see ?

Glad to see the Poms are on board with this sub stuff, after all they did build the worlds biggest steam powered submarine the RMS Titanic. Its been underwater since 1912, now that's Pommy technology. Several Asian countries have expressed concerns about Australia going nuclear, given our belligerent track record in the region. I can understand why.

Indy, if we cut out that wasteful aged welfare we could save $25 billon/year. Get a new nuk sub every year, and a couple of battle ships as well.

I could never fathom why even Turnbull got us involved with France, a stale Old World country and one of the first to fall to multiculturalism and Islamic terror. France means nothing to us. The withdrawal of their ambassador is a childish hissy fit. We share no history, apart from a couple of names of explorers who got lost in the 18th. Century, and their language is an effeminate gabble. They are down at number 17 on trade.

We will survive

Paul, and several Asian countries expressed support.

ttbn,
We owe France for much of our language words, cooked sheep meat, mutton, being but one of the many.

The very successful HMAS “SUCCESS” was a French design built at Cockatoo Island Dockyard and was in commission for 33 years.

Add to the above, some 30% of our words come directly from the French.

Ever used RSVP?

Short for “Repondez s’il vous plait”

and this response .