Alex Gallacher (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. On Tuesday the minister told the Senate that the government would deliver thousands of jobs in shipbuilding, but yesterday the ASC announced another 110 jobs in South Australia, citing its inability to maintain its workforce in the absence of an Adelaide build of the offshore patrol vessels. Minister, given your government's first shipbuilding decision was to send the contract for supply ships offshore, how many shipbuilding jobs have been lost over the past 2½ years on your government's watch?