Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, given the work on the relocation study was clearly staged to avoid political pitfalls such as Senate estimates and the state elections, how can the government deny having politicised Department of Defence processes? Isn't it now obvious that under Minister Pyne the Naval Shipbuilding Plan has become nothing more than a Liberal Party marginal seats plan?