Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Science, Technology and Personnel) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, the money is not allocated. The $1.5 billion that you are referring to from the previous announcement for the conversion of Super Hornets into Growlers was announced as an absorption. You have just said to the House that that $1.5 billion absorption will be redirected to meet the current absorption. Absorption plus absorption still equals absorption, unless you can find some other way to find $1.5 billion.

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