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

And, when those opposite did spend money, they were completely out of control—28 different defence programs running a combined 97 years over time. They worked out that the world had become a complicated place, but they were incapable of making the difficult decisions to give rise to a strategic response, and that's because the defence ministry was a revolving door: six—really seven—different defence ministers during the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison government.

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