Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a supplementary question, and perhaps the senator might like to attempt to answer this question. Does the minister accept findings by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute which show that achieving the government's promise to increase defence spending to two per cent of GDP within a decade would require an annual real rate of growth of around five per cent each year over the next 10 years, or around $35 billion? Will you now commit to that target?