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

In the last few weeks, the annual Australia-United Kingdom Ministerial Consultations were held in Edinburgh, to further strengthen and consolidate our strategic, our defence and our security relationships. With the selection of the BAE global combat ship as the basis for our new Hunter class frigates, which I spoke about in this place yesterday, the Australia-UK defence relationship is in fact beginning a new chapter. I was very pleased to join my counterpart, the Rt Hon. Gavin Williamson, at the Govan shipyards in Glasgow to see the progress on the UK's Type 26 frigate, to walk the floor of the shipyards—