Senate debates

Monday, 24 June 2024

Questions without Notice

Defence Procurement: Submarines

2:37 pm

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

I think it's interesting that Senator Cash says that calling her a senior member of the coalition is demeaning. I didn't think that was, but I'll leave that to her. To use something as important as AUKUS, which has—

May I finish? You asked the question, Senator Cash. To ask a question on a policy which was introduced by your government, which has bipartisan support, which goes to the national security and strategic circumstances of this nation, in order to try and utilise it in a domestic debate to cover up the shambles of a policy you have announced is really not befitting of a party that's serious about national security. It's not befitting. You and I both know—

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