The thing most people don't realise is while Turnbull is a social progressive and a political moderate, he is also an economic rationalist. It is actually quite likely he will be prepared to make big changes with a long term view, rather than the old school conservative play book of the last two years. What that means to specific projects I don't know, what I hope though is they drop ideology and parochialism as well as ignoring the short term, blinkered advice of the Productivity Commission etc.
I dont think the 19 billion for the OCV's is a misquote because it was mentioned before by Defmin back in August which was posted by rockitten......(I cannot post the link but Rockitten's post dated 5/8/15).......
So is the 19 billion just for construction of the ships or does it include the whole of program costs? Including the upgrading of bases to fit these larger types of vessels? Could it also include the building of any new bases?
bit of caution needed when throwing numbers around.
Really? He's that good?
True, One of those thing's that we have to wait and see until the costing's are fully released.
). I had used the Anzac class as a base in this in which case pre ASMD the HMAS Perth came in at around $86,000 a ton (2014 dollars) while post ASMD HMAS Perth cost + average ASMD cost came in at around $111,000 a ton. I figure allowing $125,00 a ton is leaving more then enough wiggle room.Depends on your definition of good, there are members of his own party, especially the right wing, who are horrified by the prospect.
Should be able to use the well dock ...... so you have evidence of this.
It would seem that Naval Sea Systems Command expects the MK VI Patrol Boat to be capable of operating, at least in some fashion, from well decks.
It's not meant to replace the capes or the ACPB it's meant to be able to protect/escort the LCM-1E as they manouver to the shore line conduct patrols in brown water or patrol port Infrastructure.
Well, it sounds good to me. But then I'm a soft liberal centrist.
The new PMs progressive traits are actually on topics supported by between 70 and 80% of the population, so rather than an illustration of how liberal / progressive he is its an indictment of how backwards and out of touch the conservative right of Australian politics is. He is a genuine right of centre old school Australian Liberal, the fact that anyone can seriously describe him as left wing is a sad example of just how much influence the extreme right has gained in recent years.Well, it sounds good to me. But then I'm a soft liberal centrist.
The 70 and 80% figure.
It was from an article on Turnbull pointing out that labor voters would be disappointed as his progressive stances were still to the right of centre and considered desirable by the above-mentioned percentages of the population. This is hardly surprising as about half the current liberal party room is of the same mind and perhaps was even more so inclined during the Howard years when there were a number of prominent progressives in cabinet. Remember that Costello supported a republic and a carbon trading scheme was a Liberal government policy going into the 2007 election.