Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

This is an incredibly important debate that this Senate chamber is having. I am sorry that it is being done in the partisan terms that those opposite want to structure this debate in, but I am happy to come in here and have this discussion, because I appreciate fully the importance of the car industry to Australia and especially to my home state of South Australia. I appreciate its economic importance and the millions of dollars that multiply throughout the economy.