Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. On 6 June 2014 former defence minister David Johnston announced Navy's two new supply ships would be commissioned from overseas because there was an 'urgent need to forestall a capability gap'. Minister, why is it that more than a year and a half later you still have not signed a contract for this urgently required capability for Navy?