Thank you for your question.
I think the Australian government had a threshold moment in about 2014-2015 when it concluded decisively that it wanted to maintain a domestic shipbuilding capability for the navy. There had been a decades-long debate about the merits of offshore purchasing versus onshore construction. Now, I think for the first time in 30 years, we have a largely bipartisan agreement that onshore construction is the right way to go.
I think it is acknowledged that this can come at a price, because we are, comparatively speaking, a very small manufacturing base relative to other large producers of warships.
One of the challenges for government and for the defence organization is how to do this in the most cost-effective way possible. The answer seems to be through a process of continuous construction, which allows you to gain efficiencies with pretty much every platform you produce. You can expect something like a 5% saving against each platform as it comes off the production line.