Friday 29th of March 2024

Corporate Defence/Gov't Nepotism in Adelaide?

To celebrate Peter Cosgrove's first day as South Australia's main defence advisor, our Premier gave another fifteen million dollars to The Star Wars Shipbuilding Project.  The project is under the control of Halliburton's former global vice president for infrastructure, Andrew Fletcher.

 "We're actually gearing up to bid for a series of new projects and obviously what we need to do is to have the infrastructure and facilities in place to handle them." said Premier Mike Rann.  Lucky for him that he's got a man with the best infrastructure plans in the world working for him.... or is it vice versa?

According to ABC News, Mr Rann says the total development budget has reached $243 million with another shipbuilding berth to be established at the site, along with more rail tracks.