If I remember correctly, the Australian seasprites were "remanufactured" airframes, so in essence they were sold thrice!
We paid 1.4 bill for used, reconditioned airframes that in the end we're not put into operational service.
Don't mind spending my tax dollars in defence but I do object to gross wastage, I would rather spend it on subsidising medicines via the pbs or actually helping people, or we could spend the 1.4 billion funding casa, which as a government department should be funded by the government and not applying user pays, particularly when the service the user is paying top dollar for is usually crap