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

In the unlikely event that I was not heard before for all the hysterical shouting from Senator Conroy, let me repeat that during the six years of the Labor government, during which time Senator Conroy, Senator Carr and Senator Wong sat around the cabinet table, not a single Australian naval shipbuilding project was commenced—not one for six years. Notwithstanding that the Secretary of the Department of Defence and the Navy were urgently warning the then Labor government of the need to get on with it, to progress naval shipbuilding, they did nothing. You did nothing. We have made the most important announcement in the history of Australian naval shipbuilding with the continuous build and will be announcing the result of the competitive evaluation process of the Future Submarine later this year. (Time expired)