Probably not the Greens, because they would not want to see this investment into these particular capabilities.
Look, I think there was strong common ground for the major centre-left parties and centre-right parties to accept the idea that defence industry policy did need to be seen as a subset of broader Australian government attempts to grow the economy and grow jobs in the economy. It wasn't much of a fight to get the parties to sign up to that. There's still an enormous—and appropriately so—amount of political fight over particular issues relating to contracts and those sorts of things, and that's a healthy function of the system. However, it is very useful to have that broad sense that now we can put the debate over offshore versus onshore behind us, and I really hope we stick with that for the time being.
On the defence industry minister, it is a useful thing for the committee to consider. I think that the government came to that view partly as a workload function between what the minister of defence and the industry minister could do and partly in the realization that the acquisition program set out in our last defence white paper is the biggest risk. It's the one thing that needs the government's closest attention, and it's also some of the biggest expenditure that this or any other Australian government will ever undertake.
Was that worth a cabinet minister's position? I think it was, and I think the government came to that view.