Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee (part 3 of 3)
2 June 2026
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Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:02
Speaker 3
Uplift to build new Virginia class submarines?
00:02 - 00:17
Speaker 33
Senator, these are questions best placed to the Australian submarine agency. You're talking about the sovereign industrial base uplift, that was part of the Australian payment, and I'd encourage you to ask your questions to that agency.
00:17 - 00:50
Speaker 27
Now you see, secretary Quinn, the Australian public might have been under the misapprehension that if we're giving The US $4,000,000,000 so that they can produce, hopefully, more new Virginia class submarines, that we might get a new Virginia class submarine. What do you think the Australian public makes of us putting $4,000,000,000 into The US industrial base to produce more new Virginia class submarines, and we get, like, a... The equivalent of a secondhand Corolla out of them? What what do you think the Australian public makes of that?
00:50 - 00:52
Speaker 5
I mean, again, senator Shubridge, you are asking effective
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