The government and the Australian Submarine Agency are up to their usual tricks of minimising scrutiny by playing media favourites. Not only is this wrong in principle it’s a symptom of deeper problems in the ASA – and there will be a lot more coming out about that in the next few days. People who know what they are doing enjoy having their ideas challenged and it is generally the poor performers who prefer to hide. And with that in mind, our squabble with Army over the destruction of the Taipan helicopter fleet continues. Why does it matter any longer now that the damage has been done? Two reasons – this fiasco should never be repeated; and secondly, let’s have some accountability. Army have been concealing true support costs for years – and we blow the whistle on some of those. Finally, the General Purpose Frigate program and could we be seeing a tiny glimpse of sanity?
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Very telling that you were not invited Kim, but even more telling is that you didn’t even know of it. As I have said previously you are asking the hard questions and they don’t like it and not being invited is proof if that you are asking the hard questions.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
In Australia the Defence debate is plagued with poorly informed reporting. As one of a tiny few of specialist Defence journalists we need YOU asking these questions because you have the knowledge and background to know what to ask and when you are being fed BS.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks as always.
I appreciate the feedback.