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Be careful what you wish for.
Australia did that twice. The Hobarts were a friggin mess when the showed up and one of the reasons for the massive cost increases and project delays was the Ozzies fixing all the crap that Spain screwed up in the hull.
Same thing for their resupply vessel which almost sunk within sight of Sydney on its trip over to Australia. Then a year later it had an internal fuel FLOOD on RIMPAC.
NATO standard ship build isn't a thing BTW, and has nothing to do with where the ship is built. Germany, UK, France, US, Canada, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania and Turkey all build their own ships in their own shipyards. The Dutch, Norway and a few other have the hulls built elsewhere and then final refit is in their own yards.
Having a shipbuilding industry that can do the start to finish build is a strategic industrial capability.
I think that its cheap ass, small country thinking, to not want our own shipbuilding.
Just a couple points I suspect that if we experienced what the Aussies did the same pro Irving folks would simply call it growing pains and normal for a first of class.
Moving on, a shipbuilding industry is great and I think everyone here would love us to have one. But at what cost does it become unreasonable ? What quality should be expecting and not accept anything less ? Sure a shipbuilding industry would be fantastic, but make it about building the right ships to a good mix a quality VS cost and on time.
Altruistic I know, but I want our defence production about defence production and not politics, jobs and local economic spin offs.