{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_2tnfkvi3mpwwotahluvq","title":"OPINION | A welcome wildcat? Austal, AUKUS and an ownership mud wrestle","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/opinion-a-welcome-wildcat-austal-aukus-and-an-ownership-mud-wrestle-2tnfkvi3mp","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_2tnfkvi3mpwwotahluvq","seq":630394,"kind":"article","title":"OPINION | A welcome wildcat? Austal, AUKUS and an ownership mud wrestle","url":"https://www.bairdmaritime.com/security/opinion-a-welcome-wildcat-austal-aukus-and-an-ownership-mud-wrestle","summary":"Who owns and controls Western Australian shipbuilder Austal matters to Australian, American, Japanese and South Korean national security. And there’s an arm wrestle that looks like turning into a mud wrestle over that question of ownership between Korea’s Hanwha Group and a low profile US private equity company, Wildcat . Who cares who owns the private company that is Austal? Australian taxpayers should, and so should ministers Richard Marles and Pat Conroy and the hard…","published":"2026-09-29T08:54:00Z","seen":"2026-09-29T09:40:56Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-bairdmaritime-com-f40416","name":"bairdmaritime.com","domain":"bairdmaritime.com"},"via":"kite-bairdmaritime-com-f40416","topics":["maritime","security","security vessel shipbuilding","security features/opinion","shipbuilding features","non-naval security","naval ships","naval submersibles"],"entities":[{"id":"Q780696","name":"Austal","type":"org"},{"id":"Q108556886","name":"AUKUS","type":"org"}],"image":"https://media.assettype.com/bairdmaritime/2026-09-29/mkyfn4le/Screenshot-2026-09-29-at-10-38-02-DJI0279.JPG-JPEG-Image-4000-%C3%97-3000-pixels-%E2%80%94-Scaled-18.jpg?w=280","story":"st_2tnfkvi3mpwwotahluvq","category":"sport","category_p":0.20999999344348907,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.17000000178813934,"political":0.029999999329447746}]}