Michael Forshaw (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for his answer but I am not sure how serious he really is about it as a work in progress. Given that the Navy has been without its submarine rescue vessel now for three months and will remain so for an indefinite time in future, why have personnel been despatched to try and recover the wreckage of a submarine which sank off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 1914? Shouldn’t they be endeavouring to salvage the Remora first so that our submarine capability can become fully operational once again?