The global head of French defence giant Naval Group says he is having "productive" talks with the Morrison government after being confronted about the company's commitments to Australian industry in the $90 billion future submarine program.
After emerging from separate meetings with Defence Industry Minister Melissa Price and Assistant Defence Minister Andrew Hastie, the visiting CEO was remaining optimistic about progress on a deal. "As I said, we had very productive engagement," Mr Pommellet responded before departing Parliament House.
"We must achieve at least a 60 per cent spend of the total contract value with Australian businesses."
That contract with French Navy has been a disaster from the beginning in terms of money and technology, We could have nuclear power super submarine of the shelf if not for that crazy, illogical fear of the word NUCLEAR.