There's probably a lot of sunk cost with the Hunters, all the work for design and pre-construction and some of the steel is supposed to be cut already.
Australia also needs ships that it can build now to keep its naval shipyards working; unfortunately countries like Canada and Australia (and even the US these days) that don't have much of shipbuilding industry will have to accept less efficiencies and higher costs compared to the likes of Japan, South Korea and China who dominate commercial shipbuilding.
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