Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Exactly. No-one was, despite the fact—and he has now just admitted it—that the shadow minister himself had called for an open tender not once, not twice but three times. So the Labor Party comes to this having done nothing on the submarine program for six years whilst in office. They now want a process which would take another five years before we come to a landing in relation to this issue.