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Submarine builder recommits to 60 per cent build in Australia

The French company building the $80 billion future submarine project has recommitted to giving Australian firms more than half of the work on the major shipbuilding program, amid doubts from local industry over its rollout.

Relations between the Australian government and Naval Group hit boiling point last week after Naval Group Australia's chief executive John Davis reportedly suggested local firms might not get even half the submarine contracts.

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