Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Fawcett for his first supplementary question. I don't know who wrote that question for you, Senator Fawcett, but, coming from South Australia, you witnessed time and time and time again the failure of the former government to do anything about providing support in the serious area of defence. Who was the government that cancelled the Naval contract? Who was the government that ended up spending—well, leaving the Labor government to spend—$6 billion to fix up the mess that you'd made in the defence space and—