Philip Smart | Adelaide
South Australia’s Defence Teaming Centre has launched a new campaign aimed at showing how Australia can build and maintain much of its own defence capability to international standards, while being globally competitive on price.
The new Australian Made Defence campaign will tell the story of the importance of sustaining a national defence industry capability in order to maximise Australia’s security, sovereignty and economy.
It will initially focus on the need to build future ship and submarine fleets in Australia.
“The campaign will highlight that we must stop thinking of maritime projects in myopic isolation,” said Defence Teaming Centre chief executive Chris Burns.
“Our national leadership must stop using defence projects as political capital and take a bipartisan approach to developing a national, whole-of-government shipbuilding vision.
“It will also highlight the need for a long term, 30 year, bipartisan strategy for shipbuilding as opposed to the 30-month ‘thought bubbles’ between elections that our defence industry has had to survive over the last decade.”
The Australian Made Defence website at www.australianmadedefence.com.au, holds information on Australia’s strategic situation, the role submarines play in national defence and facts and figures on the current Collins class and how a 30-year shipbuilding plan would benefit Australia’s economy and maintain its skills base against international competition.