Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

What South Australian workers understand and what South Australian naval workers understand is that under you, Senator Carr, they got the booby prize, not the first prize. They got the booby prize, because you did not start the construction of one naval ship. In six years you did absolutely nothing. As Vice Admiral—

Senator Conroy interjecting—

I think after what the shadow minister did in communications he is probably best keeping very quiet about policy disasters. Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, the Chief of Navy, said recently:

This provides certainty for not just the naval shipbuilding side of things but it also provides certainty for planning, not just within Navy, but within the Australian Defence Force.

Of course, Labor's valley of death, which we all know very, very well, has been described— (Time expired)