Bob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

What a research capacity they have got on the other side of the House. The speech that is the core of the question, the speech being unveiled to the Senate today, was given on 23 August. The speech by Duncan Lewis was presented to ASPI on 23 August. In the speech he said explicitly that Australia's Defence spending was appropriate and that our recent budget decisions on Defence were made in the context of governments around the world, including those of the US and the UK, cutting defence spending more than Australia had done. In any case—