Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I'm enjoying enormously talking about Australian industry participation in the naval shipbuilding industry. One of the reasons that it is such an enjoyable exercise for me is that there is not one single person on the other side who can speak with any authority on this matter. Do you know why, Mr President? It's because in the entire term of the Labor government—let me remind you, 2007-2013—not one single order was placed for one single ship to be built in Australia. Not one!