Senator Jacqui Lambie

Senator LAMBIE: Hang on! You gave evidence to Senator Wong last year that you were spending $300 million to put the details of the program in place, so— Vice Adm. Mead : The $300 million was the money allocated to the Nuclear Powered Submarine Task Force for an 18-month period, so that we could conduct our activities. I understand your question. We are working with the US. We're doing a lot of discussions to work out which of the actual submarines would be transferred over to Australia. That submarine may not even have been delivered or commissioned yet in the US Navy right now.