David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

From that I can take it that if a researcher is doing work on a low noise oscillator, which is a very important component in a whole host of military applications, but that oscillator is used for a peacetime objective, then the minister can stop him without any right of reply from that institution or that researcher? In other words, Minister, a piece of fundamental research, basically applied.