E&OE…… Minister Andrews: Good morning. I’m very pleased to be here this morning and be joined by the Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett and the Acting CEO of the Defence Material Organisation, Mr Harry Dunstall.
E&OE…………… Minister Andrews:
MINISTER ANDREWS: Thank you very much Brigadier James to you to Lieutenant General David Morrison, the Head of Army, to Major General Paul McLachlan the Head of Land Systems, my friend and Parliamentary colleague Sarah Henderson, the Member for Corangamite, ladies and gentlemen.
MINISTER ANDREWS:
NEWSREADER: We are now going to be taking you live to the Defence Minister Kevin Andrews. He's speaking live in Adelaide today. He's at the shipbuilder ASC. Let's go there now.
E&OE <START> MINISTER ANDREWS:
E&OE <START> QUESTION: What have you seen and heard here, and learned most importantly?
Senator Mathias Cormann Minister for Finance Senator for Western Australia Senator David Johnston Minister for Defence Senator for Western Australia
Topic: Cost estimates of the future submarine SMYTH: Minister welcome to the program. MINISTER: Good afternoon Michael. SMYTH: How can these ball park figures vary so much? MINISTER:
Topic:Australia’s Involvement in Iraq E&OE
Topic: Australia’s Involvement in Iraq; Combating Terrorism E&OE HUTCHISON:
Re: Iraq. LEIGH SALES: And a short time ago, I was joined from Perth by the Defence Minister David Johnston. David Johnston, is Australia being goaded into war, as Christine Milne asserts? DAVID JOHNSTON:
With: Federal Member for Farrer Sussan Ley MP E&OE JOHNSTON:
Re: Iraq, NATO, Afghanistan, future submarine (8 September 2014) SMITH:
Topic: Australian Involvement in Iraq E&OE CARABINE: David Johnston, welcome to Breakfast. JOHNSTON: Thanks Alison. CARABINE: Minister if we could first look at logistics, when will the airlift begin? JOHNSTON:
With: Federal Member for Lindsay Fiona Scott MP E&OE SCOTT:
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Does the Australian Government consider that joining a campaign of air strikes against Islamic State militants could be part of its humanitarian mission? Well earlier this evening, Defence Minister Senator David Johnston joined us from our Parliament House studio.
Assistant Minister for Defence, Stuart Robert, together with Commander, Joint Health Command Rear Admiral, Robyn Walker and National President, Returned and Services League Rear, Admiral Ken Doolan (Ret'd) officially launch Australia's participation in the Invictus Games, to be held in London in September 2014
QUESTION: (inaudible)
WARHAFT: Defence Minister David Johnston is on the line.
CURTIS: David Johnston welcome to Capital Hill. You put a lot of weight in a speech yesterday on getting the Air Warfare Destroyer programme right saying it was a test case for the industry.
QUESTION: (inaudible) JOHNSTON: We’ll see how the full-cycle docking for HMAS Farncomb, the length of time taken and how successfully ASC can manage that will probably be the benchmark, that’s what we’ve got to wait on.
OPENING OF AIRBUS GROUP AUSTRALIA-PACIFIC, CANBERRA JOHNSTON: Thank you to you Jens as the new Managing Director of Airbus Group, and of course the CEO of Australian Aerospace as it once was – I’m taking it for granted that that’s the transition across to the new name.
QUESTION: Can you tell me how important this opening in Canberra is for Airbus and the Government? JOHNSTON: Well Airbus makes a magnificent contribution to Australia’s defence capability across a number of platforms, particularly helicopters and aircraft.
QUESTION: I notice this morning you started talking about the possibility of a rolling build for the Future Frigates, does that mean industry is very keen on it? JOHNSTON: An enterprise, that is that we get a planned acquisition of not just Future Frigates, but many Navy ships if we can be cost-effective.
Topic: Japan and Australia 2 + 2 talks. E&OE TONY JONES, PRESENTER To discuss those two-by-two talks with Japan, we were joined just a short time ago from Tokyo by the Defence Minister, Senator David Johnston. David Johnston, thanks for joining us.
QUESTION Thanks for your time Defence Minister. Can you tell us what was achieved at the meetings just then, particularly with Japanese Defence Command? DEFENCE MINISTER
