BlueScope looks to take part in international defence contracts

Glen Humphries
Updated January 30 2019 - 3:09pm, first published February 9 2018 - 2:00pm
The Boxer combat vehicle in BlueScope's plate mill. The Port Kembla company is working with maker Rheinmetall to provide steel for the vehicle. Picture: Glen Humphries
The Boxer combat vehicle in BlueScope's plate mill. The Port Kembla company is working with maker Rheinmetall to provide steel for the vehicle. Picture: Glen Humphries

It weighs 35 tonnes, can reach speeds of 100km/h – and BlueScope could be involved in building it.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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