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

If I may, I might just finish the last point I was making in relation to the previous question, which is: the development of the submarine construction yard and the Skills and Training Academy at Osborne, which also will enable 4,000 jobs expected in construction work over the years to come.

But, of course, there was a very different approach that was taken when those opposite were in government. We saw a decade of chaos and dysfunction. As the now shadow minister of defence as stated, Defence had too many ministers over a nine-year period, which, of course, led to a squandering of a lot of opportunity. And, of course, the approach of the former government was to promise the world and then walk away from it. We saw the in-and-out deal with Japan, then the in-and-out deal with France, and who can forget Senator Johnston saying he wouldn't trust the Australian Submarine Corporation to build a canoe! (Time expired)