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

In the last budget we took Defence spending as a share of GDP from 1.5 per cent to six per cent, and we were last there in 1938—courtesy of the Labor Party. That is 1938 spending on Defence. So this Prime Minister takes a personal interest in my portfolio and I am very thankful for that because Rudd and Gillard treated it with disdain. They ripped it off. (Time expired)