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

I thank the member for Boothby for her question. Last Monday I had the great pleasure of going to Osborne with the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence, Marise Payne, to launch the national shipbuilding plan. On this side of the House we are responsible for the largest build-up of our naval capability in peacetime—$90 billion of taxpayers' investment in the largest build-up of our naval capability in peacetime. It is laid out in the Naval Shipbuilding Plan that the Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence and I released last Monday—where we are going to find the skills and the workforce, what is required in terms of infrastructure, the build-up of our industrial capability—because we want as much of that spending as possible to happen here in Australia, creating jobs and investment. On the other side of the House—

Dr Mike Kelly interjecting—

By contrast, we are making up for the decisions that they did not make. And it has been very well received. The Naval Shipbuilding Plan—

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