Mr Macfarlane, which are the Australian companies that are best placed to benefit from involvement in this project?
You mentioned aerospace companies. There could, I suppose, be some other types of companies as well. Which are the companies we’re talking about here who are best placed? What sort of number of jobs are we talking about? IAN MACFARLANE: Well, in terms of that process, that is very much in its early days. But my department travelled to the United States, spoke to Lockheed Martin and as a result of that, Lockheed Martin visited Australia. And they identified a significant number. But in particular, said there were at least 10 companies that would be a real chance in terms of participating in both the development and potentially the construct of this aircraft. And in particular, five that they would place at very short odds. Now, they didn’t pass those names to me, but I’m confident that based on Australia’s already significant capability in this area and the fact that one supplier who’s name eludes me, is actually already involved that we will see significant involvement by Australian ae
