David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

As I understand it, the government had resolved to adopt a process where a period of up to 24 months was available, and it was open to accept a shorter period if that was the recommendation given to government. So it was a process that was flexible but, obviously up to 24 months, the government takes due regard for the concerns you are pointing out but does provide the flexibility to move faster than that if that is the advice government receives.