On Peter Dutton saying he wants a ‘whole squadron of F-35s’ Turnbull says:

I’m not saying that is the particular right decision. I notice Peter Dutton has said he wants to buy a new Squadron of them. You certainly shouldn’t be saying that, I wouldn’t have thought. It sends quite the wrong signal but this is why we need to have a proper conversation about this and this is what we were having yesterday. But you can’t keep on pretending it’s not happening. There is a big – moving to another marine metaphor, there is a big whale in the bay called Donald Trump, splashing around, wetting everybody and creating mayhem and our political class are pretending it’s not there.