We worked with Australia to create a partnership and an alliance, for 50 years. At the same time in the making, there was a complete other project that we discovered, thanks to the press, one hour before and imagine our anger, we felt …
We were not speaking about potatoes and tomatoes, we’re speaking about a product that was carefully designed for all of the requests of Australia … and permitting us to transmit secrets, know-how and secret industrial and military secrets, to build a sovereign capacity here in Australia …
We made all the efforts to be on time and on budget, especially during this Covid period and we got praised for that, including public praise for a big achieve such a thing.
And at the end of the day, the question seems to be only, did we get the call one hour or four hours before the announcement?