Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) | Hansard source

The reality is that if we had continued defence spending at the same levels that Labor had when they were last in government then we would have been spending $55 billion less on defence over the course of the last eight years. What does that mean? It means that men and women of the Australian Defence Force would have been looking for other jobs. We would have reduced numbers, because that's what Labor did when they were in government. (Time expired)

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