F-35 costing for Australia...the real "cost"

This from a source with significant experience in Defence and Government in relation to the Australian F-35 issue:

The Future Fund is quarantined to provide for unfunded Public Service pensions, so I cannot see how it can be applied to fund a weapon system.

The other Government 'Bank Account' is called 'Consolidated Revenue'. The money flowing to CR comes from taxes, and at $12.6 Bullion, that's $504 from every man, woman and child.

If the price is $11 B for 58 aircraft, that makes the cost $189.655 million apiece.

Quite a cost for fleet that is not designed for air superiority. To quote Gen Mike Hostage, Commander, Air Combat Command from Defense News, 3 Feb 2014:

"If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22"

So, it does not require a monster brain to realise that with no F-22s, all F-35 fleet operates do not have an air superiority capability.

Meanwhile, our peace-loving neighbours are arming with Su-35S, PAK-FA and J-20 and do have a lethal capability.

So, I guess this is another of the 'no brainer' decisions of the Coalition Government