Richard Marles (Corio, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

When you churn defence ministers like the Liberals do, you cannot provide strategic direction. We have been able to provide increased spending on drones because, since coming to office, the Albanese government has significantly increased defence spending on four separate occasions, including on Tuesday night, such that there is now $117 billion extra in the defence budget over the next 10 years relative to what we inherited. When the Liberals were in government, they increased defence spending just once.

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