Australia to retire C-130Hs early as part of budget shakeup

Flightglobal's Greg Waldron has a comprehensive writeup on Australia retiring it's fleet of 12 C-130H Hercules transports early, in a bid to trim it's Defence Budget as part of a government effort to achieve a budget surplus. Greg has pretty much covered most of the bases in the article, there's nothing much worth adding from my end really.