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

I thank the member for his question. As I said in a previous answer, our $50 billion investment in the Future Submarine program has wide economic benefits. This includes a variety of businesses and organisations that were mentioned by the member opposite. We know some of those businesses will contribute to the capability of this program, but all will receive investment under this program. What we do know is that this supports a raft of small- and medium-sized businesses, supporting jobs.

What we're focused on on this side of the House is we're backing the growth of Australian jobs.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

We're going to deliver on that $200 billion that we've committed to determine our defence capability.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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