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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

Prioritising weapons over health, education

The Navy test-fires a Kongsberg naval strike missile off the deck of HMAS Sydney near Hawaii last month. Picture by Daniel Goodman, ADF

PAT Conroy ('$850m to secure Hunter's future as Defence powerhouse', Opinion, 22/8) has boasted about his government's generosity to a foreign weapons company to build more powerful killing devices.

Is the $850 million that the federal government has found to subsidise the Norwegian company, Kongsberg, to build the Naval Strike Missile at Williamtown being taken from our hospital and school funding?

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