Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Once again it is worth noting that the buy-in price of this project was $50 billion. The ANAO has told us that this price tag has grown to $80 billion. This is against a backdrop where we know that spending on defence infrastructure projects is one of the worst ways to spend public funds. Bang for buck, it delivers fewer jobs, it helps fewer people and it does more damage to our environment than nearly any other way of spending public funds, and, as Senator Siewert so often tells me and any other person who will listen, it is a terrible thing in this country that, when people don't have enough to eat, we plunge billions into war machines.

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