Editors at Murdoch’s South Australian masthead, the Advertiser, could not have imagined that hours after they published the first instalment of a major advertising series, Defending Australia, the Trump administration would announce a review of Aukus.
Sponsors for the series included the South Australian government, ASC, Babcock, BAE Systems, Hanwha Defence Australia, KBR and Deloitte. The acres of print coverage about building submarines in the state was to culminate in a summit in Canberra’s Parliament House on Monday 16 June.
