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

As usual, those opposite cannot avoid playing politics. To be clear, all the money that has been described over the course of the last few days is fully provided for in the allocation which was part of the original AUKUS announcement last year. This government is increasing defence spending to 2.4 per cent of GDP over the course of the next 10 years. By contrast, the position of those opposite is to limit defence spending to 2.1 per cent of GDP. They cannot be taken seriously on the question of spending on defence when their position is to cut tens of billions of dollars from the defence budget. While they are spinning their wheels, we've got our shoulder to the wheel to deliver Australia's future nuclear-powered submarines to keep Australians safe.

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