Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

How many ships did the Labor Party commission in six years? None—a very simple number to remember—absolutely nothing done. And what that meant was the abandonment of those workers, the abandonment of those skills. And the challenge the Minister for Defence Industry has now, of course, is to maintain the workforce as it is in Osborne and to build up those skills to prepare to build nine future frigates, 12 offshore patrol vessels, 12 future submarines. This is an enormous project, so much of it being done in South Australia, and we hear the hypocrisy from Labor Party members whose own party abandoned their state. We are standing up for advanced manufacturing, for jobs in advanced manufacturing, for our defence industry, securing Australia with the capabilities the ADF needs and securing our future economy with the skills we need, with the technology we need for a prosperous nation in the 21st century.

Mr Rob Mitchell interjecting—

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