Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Arts and Attorney-General) (15:01): Senator, you refer to the government's decision to replace HMAS Success. We have to replace HMAS Success with a vessel acquired from overseas because of the urgency of the need, because on your watch no tender was let to an Australian naval shipyard at the time it needed to be so that Success could have been replaced before the end of its operational life by an Australian build. Senator Conroy: They would be being built now. The PRESIDENT: You have asked your question, Senator Conroy. Senator BRANDIS: That is the reason for the urgency of replacing Success now with an overseas acquisition—because you did not place the order, you did not commence the process when it should have been commenced, during the six long years of the Labor government. Senator Conroy, I was in the course of reading from the CDF, Air Chief Marshal Binskin, about the naval shipbuilding program. Air Chief Marshal Binskin said: A decision on a project or program would have had to have been made back then— back then when you were the government— so that we could make the transition from the current projects to the next. (Time expired)