George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

That is the reason for the urgency of replacing Success now with an overseas acquisition—because you did not place the order, you did not commence the process when it should have been commenced, during the six long years of the Labor government. Senator Conroy, I was in the course of reading from the CDF, Air Chief Marshal Binskin, about the naval shipbuilding program. Air Chief Marshal Binskin said:

A decision on a project or program would have had to have been made back then—

back then when you were the government—

so that we could make the transition from the current projects to the next.

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