Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel) Share this | Hansard source

And I am reminded of wheat for weapons. Let us be very clear: no-one in this place could have done more or been clearer in their concern or taken the issue more seriously than our defence minister and the Prime Minister. Let me repeat what the minister has repeated so often in this House: no soldier will be financially disadvantaged by the process of implementing this determination. Their cheap posturing and stunts—using our brave soldiers for political ends—should shame all of those opposite. I again ask the member for Curtin: when you were briefed by this SAS member and his wife—

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