That is a courageous path for any minister to go down. They are now obvious targets for all future blame unless there is a miraculous turnaround in a wide range of projects. And, rather than re-invent the wheel, they have done little more than borrow from the rhetoric used, and the administrative measures announced, by the then Labor Defence Minister Stephen Smith when he faced similar problems 12 years ago.
Playing politics with defence procurement a Canberra tradition | The Canberra Times
