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

And it needs to be potent, so we need a number of those fighting vehicles, but we need to have the capacity to transport them. If we don't, we risk having hundreds of those vehicles stranded in Australia, and, if we're not about to be invaded, what is the point of that? They are the strategic reasons behind the hard decision that we have made, and that stands in stark contrast to the way defence policy was handled over most of the last decade, because the former government didn't do strategy and the former government was incapable of making a hard decision. When they spent money, they were completely out of control—

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