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

I would assume it was the same person who authorised two FA18s, several helicopters and a couple of heavy lift aircraft in the Labor Party's launch of the ill-fated 2013 white paper, at a cost to taxpayers of several hundred thousand dollars! The shadow minister wants to take issue with this in the face of the profligacy of the Labor Party, with planes and helicopters and ships that we observed—all while there was not one red cent in the white paper of 2013. The chapter dealing with budget finance and funding did not have one single dollar figure in it. This Defence portfolio—