There is no more appropriate spot than South Australia for Malcolm Turnbull to be doing damage controlOne of the much inconveniences of a three-year election cycle is that there is hardly time to crash campaign promises before having to face up to the ballot box,the memory still fresh in the mind of scorned voters.
So it was that the prime minister turned up in Adelaide on Tuesday with an apologetic smile and a promise to backflip on Tony Abbotts backflip: Australia’s next generation of submarines will be built in South Australia after all, just as pledged in the leadup to the 2013 federal election and reneged upon shortly after the Coalition secured government.
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Source: theguardian.com