Rex Patrick (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source

Is it not the case that on 29 February 2016, after the CP had closed but before any decision had been made, the German submarine builder ThyssenKrupp wrote to you reaffirming their offer for the design and construction of 12 one-hundred-per-cent-Australian-built Future Submarines? And is it not the case that their offer was—and I quote from the letter—'a fixed maximum cost of no more than $20 billion for the project'?