Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Six years in government, recognising that our submarines needed to be replaced, recognising that our Navy needed new vessels, recognising that work needed to be done, but unwilling and unable to make a decision, leaving thousands of workers in South Australia to face that valley of death as the existing work tails off. We have commissioned, or are commissioning, 54 new naval vessels—

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