Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

This motion is very important. The Australian naval shipbuilding industry is on the precipice at the moment. It is facing the valley of death. This report has been relied on by the government to make a number of decisions and we have not seen the reasons for that. Hiding behind public interest immunity, hiding behind confidentiality, is not adequate. There is going to be a Senate inquiry into the naval shipbuilding industry, but I urge senators to support this order for the production of documents because the Minister for Defence has been relying on this document yet we are in the dark as to what it means for Australian shipbuilding. Not to release this document would have very severe implications for the future of Australian shipbuilding.

Question agreed to.