George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

I am trying to make myself heard over the screaming and screeching of Senator Penny Wong here.

Opposition senators interjecting—

Senator Carr, not only was not one warship commenced in the six years of the Labor government but the air warfare destroyer project, which had been begun by the Howard government, fell into abeyance with cost blow-outs and production delays, so that it was left to the Abbott government to complete and bring home the air warfare destroyer project and, as we will announce in coming months, the future Australian submarine. Now, Senator Carr, how you can complain, when for six years the Australian shipbuilding industry fell into the 'valley of death' during your custodianship of the portfolio of industry, is beyond me.