Sean Edwards (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Where were you, Senator Conroy, when Minister Smith did the same? There were three defence ministers in six years in the Defence portfolio. How trite of you to come in here and accuse us of inaction in building submarines, when you sucked $16.3 billion out of the Defence budget and left it in a complete vacuum. Senator Gallacher was down there that day, along with the other South Australian Senators when the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Shorten, did his big xenophobic rant on the back of a truck—