House debates Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009
Consideration in Detail
Joel Fitzgibbon Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence
5:55 pm
It is still the only choice? There are other aircraft. What we would like to have seen was some forward planning, some forward knowledge about when the F111 would be retired and a competitive environment created so that we could have choices over a range of aircraft and maybe some price competition and strategic competition. We got none of that because of the former government’s failure to plan in advance.
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