{"id":32753,"date":"2015-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/tony-abbott-s-frigate-trick-stephen-conroy-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:00:00","slug":"tony-abbott-s-frigate-trick-stephen-conroy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/tony-abbott-s-frigate-trick-stephen-conroy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Abbott\u2019s frigate trick: Conroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | News Ltd<\/h6>\n<h3>Shadow defence minister Stephen Conroy says a deal to build frigates in SA is a \u201ctrick\u201d by Tony Abbott.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cLabor absolutely welcomes the decision to mandate the build of the frigates in Australia,\u201d Mr Conroy told Leon Byner on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what that exposes is why is Tony Abbott prepared to put a clause in this frigate competitive evaluation process\u2026 but continues to refuse top do it for the submarines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tony Abbott is reportedly in Adelaide to announce an&nbsp;$89 billion, 20-year defence shipbuilding program for SA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a trick by Tony Abbott to try and cover for the fact that he\u2019s still trying to deliver on his captain\u2019s pick, which is for Japan to build our submarines,\u201d Mr Conroy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is disastrous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to Stephen Conroy here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/217673623&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/graham-cornes-goodes-hoo-ha\">GRAHAM CORNES ON THE ADAM GOODES &#8216;HOO-HA&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/will-goodings\/seven-takes-nine-to-court\">SEVEN TAKE&nbsp;NINE TO COURT OVER TV SHOW &#8216;RIP OFF&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | News Ltd Shadow defence minister Stephen Conroy says a deal to build frigates in SA is a \u201ctrick\u201d by Tony Abbott. \u201cLabor absolutely welcomes the decision to mandate the build of the frigates in Australia,\u201d Mr Conroy told Leon Byner on FIVEAA. \u201cBut what that exposes is why is Tony Abbott prepared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-32753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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