Coincidence?

Every now and then, news events seem to align with each other in an almost weird fashion. Last night I  completed today's cartoon in anticipation of scheduled appointments which might have interrupted my normal daily creative routine. I chose to comment on the apparently imminent announcement of government intent to source off-shore building of Australia's new submarine fleet. If true, it means manufacture of the boats in South Australia will be 'lost with all hands' forever!

Spookily, the 7am ABC radio news tells me that a renewed search is about to be launched to try locating the wreckage of AE1, Australia's very first submarine mysteriously lost with all hands off Rabaul at about 0700hrs on September 14, 1914... almost a century ago.

It was sourced off-shore (UK), because Australia had no ship-building industry at the on-set of WW1!