Senator James Paterson

Senator PATERSON: Andrew Greene and Stephen Dziedzic from the ABC reported this morning that military officials believe it's likely the task group is being accompanied by a nuclear submarine. Does Defence have a view on whether that's likely or not? Adm. Johnston : I don't know whether there is a submarine with them. It is possible. Task groups occasionally do deploy with submarines, but not always, so I can't be definitive on whether that's the case.