When you look deeper, the true entire purpose of this deal was not to build subs. It was to "create 3000 jobs" and save one politician (Christopher Pyne) who d

When you look deeper, the true entire purpose of this deal was not to build subs. It was to "create 3000 jobs" and save one politician (Christopher Pyne) who did win the next vote, then "retired" shortly thereafter and went to "work" as a highly paid lobbyist for EY (who he brokered this twisted dodgy deal with in the first place, when he was a politician). This is borderline corrupt behaviour IMHO (and many others HO's too). There are "guidelines" for the political class, but nobody ever enforces anything even when the corruption is so blatant. Don't even get me started on Barnaby Joyce and Angus Taylor funnelling tens of millions of taxpayer funds paying for fresh water runoff that was never realistically ever going to be worth anything to anybody. [2] It was sent to Angus' Cayman Islands company that he founded, then he claimed he did not benefit personally (yeah right). Also see Christian Porter and his "blind trust" suddenly donating a million bucks into his failed defamation rape case against the ABC. [3] [4] He says he has no idea where the money came from. Yeah right. For more about Christopher Pyne, and how confected this French Frankenstein sub deal was, read the first 3 links I posted elsewhere earlier [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28580443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28580443 [2] https://www.michaelwest.com.au/barnaby-joyce-80m-valuation-discrepancy/ https://www.michaelwest.com.au/barnaby-joyce-80m-valuation-d... [3] https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/blind-trust-gift-to-porter-undermines-faith-in-democracy-20210917-p58soj.html https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/blind-trust-gift-... [4] https://chaser.com.au/national/prime-minister-who-said-we-cant-blindly-trust-porters-alleged-victim-blindly-trusts-1m-donation/ https://chaser.com.au/national/prime-minister-who-said-we-ca...