House debates

Wednesday, 7 September 2022

Questions without Notice

Defence Personnel

2:56 pm

Photo of Andrew HastieAndrew Hastie (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

on indulgence—I'd like to associate the coalition with the Minister for Defence's comments on AUKUS. It was the former coalition government who struck AUKUS in September of last year. AUKUS is the biggest defence and foreign policy achievement since ANZUS 70 years ago. We want to see AUKUS realised as quickly as possible. In fact, our strategic circumstances require exceptional leadership from the Minister for Defence, and we're going to be holding him to account to make sure—

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