It's one thing to build war fighting capability, it's another to build industrial capability
- Written by Graeme Dunk, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
ShutterstockAmid fanfare last week at the start of the new financial year the government promised to invest A$270 billion over a decade to upgrade the defence force.
It said a side benefit would be a stronger local defence industry and “more high-tech Australian jobs”.
The prime minister’s statement hastened to add that it was...