Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I hear Senator Wong say, 'That you still haven't delivered on,' as though somehow they were going to be built yesterday. Well, they would have been built a lot sooner if those opposite had actually commissioned any of them, if they'd actually made any types of decisions in that regard. We have made the decisions to do them. We have made the decisions to build these things, Senator Wong. We have made the decisions that you failed to make. We have made sure that we have made those decisions. We have signed those contracts. There is indeed, on the future frigates, steel being cut, work happening, work underway. Under your lot, you couldn't even make the decision to do it in the first place. We have the work commencing.

Senator Wong interjecting—