Having recently come back to Australia, I'm staggered (and honestly impressed) at how good the media is at shaping a story to suit the needs of politicians. In

Having recently come back to Australia, I'm staggered (and honestly impressed) at how good the media is at shaping a story to suit the needs of politicians. In all of this talk of "betraying the French" or "siding with the US", there is not even a mention of the fact Australia is spending towards $100 billion on multiple nuclear submarines. This for a country that only has 25 million people and a GDP of around $1.4 trillion USD. Why on earth does Australia need nuclear submarines, and why isn't that money being spent to improve the lives of regular tax paying Australians? A county of 25 million people that doesn't even have nuclear power (or nuclear weapons) has no need of nuclear submarines, it's an obscene waste of money.