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Minister for Defence - Reform of Air Warfare Destroyer Program

Senator Mathias Cormann Minister for Finance Senator for Western Australia   Senator David Johnston Minister for Defence Senator for Western Australia   Joint Press Conference   Tuesday, 9 December, 8:30am AEDT Topic:  Reform of Air Warfare Destroyer Program MATHIAS CORMANN Good morning everyone.…

Minister for Defence – Transcript – Interview with Michael Smyth, 891 ABC Adelaide

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: Well look, the Labor Party when in power for six years had ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) do a run…

Minister for Defence - Transcript - Interview with Geoff Hutchison mornings programme, 720 ABC Perth

Topic:Australia’s Involvement in Iraq HUTCHISON: Confirmation this morning that two Australian F/A-18 Super Hornets have flown their first combat mission in Iraq, they did not launch air strikes. Let’s go straight to the Defence Minister David Johnston, Senator Johnston good morning to you.…

Minister for Defence - Transcript - Interview with Geoff Hutchison, 720 ABC Perth

Topic: Australia’s Involvement in Iraq; Combating Terrorism HUTCHISON: Reports this morning of the first air strikes by the United States against Islamic State jihadists near Baghdad, the US military’s central command has said that both fighter and attack aircraft conducted separate airstrikes on…

Minister for Defence - Transcript - Interview with Leigh Sales, 7.30 ABC

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: Well, Leigh, it's very clear that right-thinking nations sitting back and doing nothing is…

Minister for Defence - Transcript - Domestic munitions production announcement

With: Federal Member for Farrer Sussan Ley MP JOHNSTON: Thank you all for coming to Mulwala. I’m here today with Sussan Ley, the Assistant Minister for Education and Federal Member for Farrer, who has been a very, very strong advocate for regional jobs in her electorate. Today I have much pleasure…

Minister for Defence - Transcript - Interview with Justin Smith, 2UE Drive

Re: Iraq, NATO, Afghanistan, future submarine (8 September 2014) SMITH: I did mention late last week that we were hoping to speak with the Defence Minister, he’s been in Brussels (sic) at NATO headquarters, we’ve just made contact with him, it’s good to have him on the line, Senator David Johnston…

Minister for Defence - Transcript - Interview with Alison Carabine, ABC Breakfast (Radio National)

Topic: Australian Involvement in Iraq CARABINE: David Johnston, welcome to Breakfast. JOHNSTON: Thanks Alison. CARABINE: Minister if we could first look at logistics, when will the airlift begin? JOHNSTON: Well we’ve already done two humanitarian drops – one over the weekend and one about a week…

Minister for Defence - Transcript - JP2097 ‘Redfin’ Phase 1B Announcement

With: Federal Member for Lindsay Fiona Scott MP SCOTT: Firstly, this is a very exciting day for Western Sydney, $130 million is being invested here in Western Sydney to provide some of the most state-of-the-art and impressive military technology – that’s 55 jobs for the people here in Lindsay and I…

Minister for Defence - Transcript - Interview with Tony Jones, Lateline

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. David…

Minister for Defence - Doorstop - Visit to Larrakeyah Barracks for Exercise Pitch Black

MINISTER: ...so important inform to us in the last several years. The Armidale class patrol boats have been working, as I said yesterday to you all, at a phenomenal pace. The crews have been simply magnificent in their performance of the difficult task of rescuing people, of apprehending boats, of…

Minister for Defence - Doorstop - Robertson Barracks Darwin

QUESTION: (inaudible) JOHNSTON:Our assistance to Iraq, at the invitation of the Iraqi Government, was the provision of two C-130 aircraft for humanitarian air drops into the mountains surrounding Erbil, to provide humanitarian assistance to the 30, 40, 50 thousand people who are apparently isolated…