Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:45): 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. Senator Shoebridge: How's your one going? Senator WONG: I'm sorry? The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator WONG: Are you a Lib now? It is hard to tell sometimes. The PRESIDENT: Senator Wong, I'm going to get you to go to Senator Lambie's question. Senator WONG: He has gone quiet now, hasn't he? The PRESIDENT: Minister Wong, I am going to draw you to Senator Lambie's question. Senator Whish-Wilson interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator WONG: They voted with you, actually. Would you like me to sit down or do you want me to continue? The PRESIDENT: Could you take your seat for a moment. As I've said on previous occasions, the crossbench are entitled to have their questions asked in silence and to be responded to without interjection from other senators. Minister, please continue. Senator WONG: The Defence Strategic Review goes to many of the capability challenges, which are long lived, that we are working on. The government is also developing the defence industry development strategy in line with the election commitment. Minister Conroy gave a speech today to the National Press Club in which he spoke at length obviously not only about AUKUS but also about the Australian build of the SNN-AUKUS and more broadly about the importance of Australia's sovereign capabilities. I understand, as someone from South Australia, there's been a lot of different decisions made by past governments. There was the Defence Strategic Review, and I appreciate parts of industry may not have liked some parts of that and might have welcomed other parts. I know first-hand about the effect on the Australian Submarine Corporation of the various decisions the previous government made and the comments made in this chamber by a coalition defence minister—that those men and women couldn't build a canoe. But we do have faith in Australia's industry capacity to contribute to our— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Lambie, first supplementary?