Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I hear some members of the Labor Party interjecting, which stands in stark contrast to the six Rip Van Winkle years we had under Labor, under Rudd-Gillard-Rudd, where they made not one significant decision in the defence industry, with the valley of death they created in naval shipbuilding, where they didn't commission one vessel to be built in an Australian shipyard in six years, and we have fixed the problem that they've created. We have filled in the valley of death with a $200 billion heft, with a $200 billion investment in military capability, over the next 10 years. We are creating the capability for the Defence Force, but we're creating jobs and investment and growth in the economy that Labor could have only dreamt of when they were in government.

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