Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Doug Cameron, Senator Kim Carr and you, Senator Xenophon, are the few people in Australia who are actually talking this proposition down—talking down a $90 billion spend in naval shipbuilding in this country to address the gap that those opposite created by doing nothing for the entire term of their time in government. Not one ship commissioned—not one! Zero. Nada. Everybody can understand that, even the Scotsman in the room—not one. This government will have a continuous naval shipbuilding industry supported by South Australian workers. Every single South Australian shipbuilder who has breath in their body will be part of this process—