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Taxpayers foot bill for $5b French company to fight our own government


Senator Rex Patrick (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
Since when are Australian taxpayers expected to pay for a government contractor’s own cover-up? That’s what’s happening in a legal battle between independent Senator Rex Patrick and the company behind the government’s disastrous $90 billion contract to build Australia’s new submarine fleet, Naval Group.
Defence revealed last week that it was paying Naval Group’s legal fees in a fight over how much the contract is actually worth.
This means the government has paid a multinational company, with an annual turnover of more than $5 billion, to hire lawyers to prevent information being released … under the government’s own freedom of information (FOI) rules. ....

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