Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Labor's contribution to that 2013 election was to move Fleet Base East to Brisbane, and now Labor wants us to take them seriously. Labor asked the nation to take them seriously. Labor asked their shadow Defence minister, Senator Conroy, who thought he would use a movie, A Few Good Men, to attack one of our most distinguished generals. You want us to take you seriously?

What did Labor do for two or three years, knowing full well the valley of death was coming in terms of shipbuilding? Nothing. We know that Success and Sirius need to be replaced. What decisions did the Labor government make? None. None at all. And now they have the hide, the temerity, the blatant effrontery, to walk in and to demand to know why we are not doing more, whilst we are cleaning up the house after their drunken party and they lay hung-over on the couch—hilarious.

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