Anne McEwen (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We know your ambitions are finished, Senator Bernardi, but the rest of them are gutless wonders.

It is a tragedy for my home state of South Australia that this crucial Defence shipbuilding industry is now going to be ignored and walked away from in favour of submarines being built somewhere else—not by South Australians, Senator Bernardi, probably by overseas workers. The future of Defence shipbuilding is absolutely integral to the economy of South Australia. If those Liberal senators over there do not understand it, then they should get up out of their seats, resign their positions and give them to those who will stand up for South Australia.

Question agreed to.