Senate debates
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Questions without Notice
Defence Industry
2:35 pm
Rex Patrick (SA, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source
The government has indicated that it will release the definition of what constitutes 'sovereign industry capability' in their sovereign industry capability assessment framework. Can the minister confirm that the shallow and entirely inappropriate definition of Australian defence industry released last week will not be the same definition that is adopted in the assessment framework and will instead take on a broader definition with similar characteristics to those described in my primary question?
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