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

the Labor Party used defence as a piggy bank, to take money from defence and to use it for other priorities in the government. Did you know that spending under Labor on defence dropped to the lowest levels since 1938, the last year of appeasement before the Second World War? It was 1.56 per cent of GDP, in comparison to the two per cent that we will be spending by 2020. But we can do it because we have a growing economy, because we have strong budgetary management and because we have a plan to deliver that military capability and the jobs that it entails.

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