Alex Gallacher (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer the minister to a report in the Saturday paper that during a meeting between the Prime Minister, the US President and the Japanese Prime Minister at the recent East Asia Summit, it was agreed, 'Japan and the US would help Australia with its new submarines—that is, by fitting US combat systems to Japan's Sorya class submarines.' Is the minister aware of this commitment?