House debates
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Questions without Notice
Defence Procurement
2:48 pm
Matt Keogh (Burt, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Why did the government say that 90 per cent of the work on the submarine project would be Australian when it won't be?
Pat Conroy (Shortland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Ask Siri.
Tony Smith
Melissa Price (Durack, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Back in 2016 we announced a $200 billion Australian defence white paper. Included in that is our $90 billion naval shipbuilding program. There will be thousands of opportunities within that naval shipbuilding program with respect to jobs for Australians and small businesses. There is an enormous supply chain with respect to shipbuilding and we aren't done yet.