Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Lambie, and you are right; we do need a sovereign capability in this country. The decisions we have to make are in areas we have that sovereign capability. I regret that we've seen nine years of a lot of announcements under the previous government with very little capability actually delivered. We remember there were two submarine plans that were junked over the nine-year period.