Richard Marles (Corio, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question. The defence legacy of the 10 years of the former coalition government is one of manifest failure. It started with them, with six—seven, really—defence ministers in the course of nine years. They had Johnston, Andrews, Payne, Payne-Pyne, Pyne, Reynolds—to be honest, I think I got that wrong on Tuesday, but this just gets so confusing—and then Dutton. I could go through the whole 24—

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