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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Submarine and shipbuilding summit planned for Adelaide

Martin Hamilton-SmithA summit on ship and submarine building in Australia will call on the local defence industry to help the South Australian Government strengthen its case for the Navy's next submarine fleet to be built in Adelaide.

The State Government hopes to bring together a range of experts involved in the naval ship building field to help form the its submission to a national defence industry white paper.

In recent months, the Federal Government backed away from a promise to build submarines in Adelaide with fears it was close to signing a deal to buy the Japanese Soryu-class submarines at a cost of about $25 billion.

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