Machine derived contents note: Chapter 1 The Collins Class Submarine Project 3 -- Submarine selection 5 -- Combat data system choice 9 -- Chapter 2 A Genuine Shipwreck or Pathological -- Politicisation? 11 -- Chapter 3 Combat System Snags 15 -- Chapter 4 Subscribing to US Assistance 18 -- The subplot: US strategic sakes in the littoral -- battlespace 19 -- American recognition 21 -- Strategic exchange? 22 -- Contested waters: the necessity for US -- assistance? 25 -- Tomahawlk missile development 29 -- Chapter 5 On the Rocks: the Sale of the Australian -- Submarine Corporation 33 -- Short-term nationalisation and long-term -- alliances 36 -- Chapter 6 Domestic Management: the Opposition Submerged 40 -- Chapter 7 US Concentration on a Suitable Result 43 -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Increased Intimacy 47