Nuclear subs program is ‘good news’ for Adelaide after loss of car industry

Australia’s planned nuclear submarine program will be a “hard road ahead” but the US Virginia class purchase will be the “quickest” and “cheapest” way to acquire submarines, says The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan. “It’s a good thing that Adelaide should become eventually a place to build nuclear submarines,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “It’s a tragedy that we lost the car industry from Adelaide – we now have less manufacturing than any OECD country in the world. “We’ve got an economy structured like Saudi Arabia and a standard of living structured like Switzerland and so I think this is terrifically good news. “I almost can’t believe that I’m talking in this unalloyed, optimistic positive way about any government in Australia but there it is.”