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

(—) (): I might pick up the second-to-last point because that probably goes to the nub of the question—risk. Obviously, we are not an economy nor a military the size of the US military, nor do we have an industrial base of the scale that the United States has. What we can do is what we do well. We can focus on those things that we can do well and that we must do well—those areas where you have to have the sovereign capability onshore—and that's what the government is doing. I don't know what technologies you were referring to when those companies make an assessment that they've had to go offshore because the Department of Defence considers it too risky. The DoD has to make a decision, as you know. We put a lot of money and funds, as we should, into defence capability, and Defence has to make a judgement about which technology— (Time expired)