David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I said—and, of course, the Labor Party do not want to acknowledge what I said—in talking about the minister's two options that, 'On that basis, I accept what he has said, but if everything the minister says is based on fantasy we will tell you and we will revisit this.' What those opposite did was absolutely based on fantasy. There was no plan. There was no contract. There was no design. There was no money, because they took $20 billion out of the program. This is the biggest deception of the Australian public that I have ever seen in the national security space. You have stood there and said, 'We are going to build 12 submarines in Adelaide,' while ripping the process apart and misleading—