Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The second fact is that we are creating an environment where thousands and thousands of defence industry jobs will be maintained. During Labor's years of incompetence and inaction, there was a 10 per cent workforce loss in the defence industry. Ten per cent of the workforce lost their jobs. The third point is that Labor slashed defence spending to the lowest percentage of GDP since 1938, and the coalition is boosting—

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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