Melissa Price (Durack, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks for the question. I think it's worth remembering what I've said earlier, which is that there are currently 137 Australian companies who are already in the submarine project. We on this side—like, I'm sure, all of those on the other side—are very committed to ensuring that we have maximum Australian industry content across all of our programs with respect to our $200 billion investment. But, as I've said, getting this lecture from Labor is really quite extraordinary. In six years, Labor did not commission the building of one naval vessel in an Australian yard—not one. By contrast, we are committing 57 naval vessels to be built in Australia by thousands of Australian workers with Australian steel. As I said earlier, we currently have 4,000 shipbuilding jobs in this country, and we need 15,000—

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