Companies who do not have any connection to the government bureaucracy or the politicians who put their two pennyworth in the mix have proven that Australia can design, build and compete with he rest of the world in ship building.
As with most things in Australia you need to keep stupid bureaucrats and the unions out of the mix and then we can do it.
Unfortunately for all of Abbott's talk he is still not willing to take on either section and finds it easier to just export the jobs.
This is not the way to fix the country but is nothing more than a temporary band aid, having known some of the suppliers of the Collins the problems were not our ability but the two reasons I listed
