Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Minister, the demise of Australia's automotive industry is a tragedy that is causing a tsunami of job losses. The Automotive Transformation Scheme should assist in the transformation of the industry but remains underspent by $1.24 billion. Not all automotive and aftermarket-product providers can remain in the industry and we need to retool and diversify to survive. Minister, will the government change the scheme to allow automotive and aftermarket-product providers to access funding for diversification into non-automotive products, and will the minister confirm no funding cuts to the scheme before 2020, thereby saving tens of thousands of jobs?

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