Rex Patrick (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Gallacher, move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) Australia's Collins Class submarines are a vital capability of the Australian Defence Force,

(ii) in June 2011 the Navy could not put one of our six Collin Class submarines to sea,

(iii) it took more than half a decade and a significant amount of taxpayer's money to restore submarine seagoing availability,

(iv) the current Collins Class submarine maintenance arrangements, with short term maintenance activities in Western Australia and deep maintenance, embodied in the full cycle dockings, in South Australia, are achieving world benchmarks,

(v) the Minister for Defence stated that the decision on the future location of full cycle dockings would be made by the end of 2019, and

(vi) we are now into 2021, with workers, defence industry and the public still waiting for the decision to be announced; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to put an end to the uncertainty and announce the decision regarding the location for all Collins Class Submarine full cycle docking activities going forward.

Question agreed to.