Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The United States, to give it its due, does publish a large amount of this sort of information even in the Jane's series of reviews into different kinds of hardware, so I would be surprised if somebody needs to ring the US Department of Defense to find out that information, but I will leave it to you as you have taken that on notice and I was not expecting an answer tonight. Minister, both you and, I think, Senator Marshall—I am not sure whether Senator Singh did or not—referred to the passage of this legislation as 'a first step', which I think is the phrase that you both used, to uphold our obligations under the convention, which to me suggests that it is in fact partial. I wonder what other steps the government is proposing in order to fully uphold our obligations under the convention if indeed this is only seen as a step.