Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

It is obviously very difficult for me to comment on what Senator Whish-Wilson did or did not expect about the level of investment in defence and national security. What I can say, though, is that this government went to the last election very transparently declaring what our commitment was. Our commitment was to bring defence funding from the disastrously low levels that they went to under the Labor government back up to two per cent of the share of GDP within a certain time frame. We reflected that, and we are implementing that commitment.