David Fawcett (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a second supplementary question. Given that the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has stated that the deferral of Defence funds to beyond 2012-13 has created a five-year period where spending will need to grow in real terms by six per cent a year to regain the promised three per cent real growth over the decade, does the government have plans to bring Defence funding back on track and in what year will that funding come into effect?