Defence procurement bungles and wins

[ElwoodBlues1]

Shanahan knows as well as anybody else that the budget figures are in today dollars, not the 2050 dollars.

As with any major purchase or infrastructure project, it seems expensive at the time, but decades later it'll seem cheap and we won't be able to work out why it didn't happen earlier.

When I was a munchkin opponents claimed the Westgate Bridge was a luxury item the state could not afford, now we are replicating it with tunnels and people are claiming the tunnels are too expensive and a bridge would be a cheaper option.

Didn't I hear something on radio the other day about a bridge across Port Phillip Heads or Westernport Heads, aka the Bay Ring Road? Somebody claimed it was too much at estimated $90B, seems cheap today! :o

Unfortunately I dont see China waiting 30 years to do what they want to do next ie Taiwan and building military infrastructure on the many pacific islands they will probably control. You also have to ask what we build will it still be relevant? and the question asked was where is the money coming from? I guess more taxes given Albanese has already broken an election promise and is fiddling with franking credits again and superannuation.