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Defence minister Marise Payne on the restructure of ASC: | |
It is absolutely vital that we have the right ship building structures in place to deliver on what are very ambitious plans to deliver historic, continuous naval shipbuilding programs. It is absolutely essential. Whether it is our offshore patrol vessels, or our future frigates, or the Pacific patrol boats being constructed in advance of those. These platforms which not only for a core of our naval capability, but they provide engagement and support in our region and they will do that for many decades to come. | |
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Defence industry minister Christopher Pyne says it is a red letter day. | |
We will have one of the most modern and busiest shipyards in the world. Osborne North will have one of the most modern and busy submarine shipyards in the world. It will bring to Australia a significant multinationals sub contract involving DCNS. It will drive jobs and growth and create high technology advancement in jobs. The infrastructure will make Australia one of the centres of naval antisubmarine shipbuilding in the world. It will create a new export industry for our country and it is a red letter day for the defence industry. | |
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Finance minister Mathias Cormann says there will be a structural separation within ASC between ship building and submarines. | |
It is a structural separation which is designed to ensure that the ASC is in the best possible position. Reform is built on the successful work that we have done for the destroyer program and the sustainment reforms. | |
It will be completed by mid 2017. | |
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Malcolm Turnbull’s press conference opens with a lecture on the Country Fire Authority. Which is confusing. | |
But then segues onto changes in the sub builder ASC and defence generally. Turnbull is going through all of Labor’s crimes, | |
cleaning up that mess, making up for that neglect, commissioning the vessel and setting out in our defence white paper, our plan and a way forward to secure our future... | |
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Just to a quick summary of the day ahead of the PM’s press conference. | |
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Tomorrow His Excellency Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore will visit Parliament. | |
Like I say, the parliamentary sitting week is getting away from us so it is unlikely that the plebiscite bill will get through both chambers this week. Next week, the senate does not sit because it will be doing senate estimate committees. | |
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Malcolm Turnbull coming up at 12.30pm with the ministers for finance, defence and defence industry. What on earth could it be? | |
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Nice, Mike. | Nice, Mike. |
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Finally Bill Shorten is asked about criticising Turnbull for keeping a plebiscite promise, knowing that the right wing of his party insisted on maintaining the plebiscite promise. | Finally Bill Shorten is asked about criticising Turnbull for keeping a plebiscite promise, knowing that the right wing of his party insisted on maintaining the plebiscite promise. |
Just because you have a few National party MPs threatening to bring down the government, that’s Mr Turnbull’s problem. But that’s not Australia’s problem and my problem. My issue is marriage equality. I don’t have to do what the extreme right of the National and Liberal Party do. Mr Turnbull made that bed a long time ago. He has to lie in it now. He signed up to Tony Abbott’s agenda, he signed up to Tony Abbott’s plebiscite. He has to live with his conscience. | Just because you have a few National party MPs threatening to bring down the government, that’s Mr Turnbull’s problem. But that’s not Australia’s problem and my problem. My issue is marriage equality. I don’t have to do what the extreme right of the National and Liberal Party do. Mr Turnbull made that bed a long time ago. He has to lie in it now. He signed up to Tony Abbott’s agenda, he signed up to Tony Abbott’s plebiscite. He has to live with his conscience. |
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Bill Shorten says he will work with the crossbenchers, the Greens, the Liberals to have a vote in the parliament. Just not a plebiscite. | Bill Shorten says he will work with the crossbenchers, the Greens, the Liberals to have a vote in the parliament. Just not a plebiscite. |
We will work with anyone to achieve marriage equality. We will work with the Liberals to have the vote but the point about it is a plebiscite is the wrong path to achieve marriage equality. | We will work with anyone to achieve marriage equality. We will work with the Liberals to have the vote but the point about it is a plebiscite is the wrong path to achieve marriage equality. |