Yes it was all about keeping a few local jobs in Adelaide.
"Scrambling for votes to avert the spill, Abbott agreed to South Australian Liberals’ demands for an open tender for the submarine contract. The concession fed into the fundamental fight to have future subs built at Adelaide’s Osborne shipyard, birthplace of the six Collins-class subs."
We've seen how successful the last lot of locally built Collins class of submarines have been. Spent more time in port for repairs than at sea...
But is $90 Billion really worth a few thousand jobs? I could think of better value for money job creating programs.
