Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

we would change our policy on the South China Sea.

Turning to the question, it is absolutely extraordinary, on a serious note, that right now, when our Australian Defence Force is serving in combat in Syria and Iraq, and we have troops in the Middle East, in Afghanistan, taking part in serious operations—members of our Air Force, members of our command, who are putting their lives at risk—the only question that the shadow minister for defence can think of to ask me, the first question he has ever thought of to ask me, is on such a trivial matter as— (Time expired)

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