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

I thank the member for Braddon for his question and acknowledge his 20 years of distinguished service in the Australian Army, and I thank him for his passion for the Australian defence industry. The Morrison government is supporting our road to recovery, supporting Australians jobs with its $270 billion investment in our Australian defence capability. In February I announced our plan to put small defence industry front and centre with our decision-making. Over the last six months, even during these challenging COVID times, we have been able to achieve systematic changes with respect to decision making and defence industry.

I have three that I want to mention. Firstly, reform of the Commonwealth Procurement Rules. This sounds like a very dry, 'financy' department type of issue but let me tell you that the defence industry—

Mr Keogh interjecting—

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