Senate debates
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Questions without Notice
Defence Procurement
2:30 pm
Rex Patrick (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source
The difference between $20 billion and $50 billion is not completely explained by the additional items that you added. Indeed, the weapons systems have an extra $5 billion to $6 billion line item in the integrated investment plan. So I'm just wondering if you could give us some idea of what capability difference you got for the extra $30 billion, or thereabouts, and, indeed, how you went about considering the opportunity cost to other elements of the defence budget or the budget in general of $30 billion— (Time expired)
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