Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

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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