Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I think you can see the leadership that the Prime Minister and the cabinet are articulating on these issues. I do accept these are different times. I understand why it is important for us to have that discussion with the community, including inside our own party and beyond, and we have been. We understand that we are asking the country for a multidecade commitment when it comes to not only the AUKUS partnership in general terms but also the submarines. That is a multidecadal commitment which has to be bipartisan—in fact it has to be multiparty—and I'm happy to spend the time I do spend alongside the Deputy Prime Minister, in party forums and more broadly, articulating the strategic rationale for AUKUS and for the submarines, and we will continue to do so.