Raff Ciccone (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Here we are again in this place, with the coalition, who absolutely hate the car industry, hell-bent on destroying good jobs. I have to remind the Senate and the senators in this place about the car industry that used to exist in Australia.

We have senators who make contributions on this point where they keep forgetting the fact that, when Joe Hockey was Treasurer, he rejoiced in the fact that Ford, Holden and Toyota shut up shop in this country, and we saw close to 200,000 jobs connected to the car industry go out the door and offshore.

I'll tell you what it has to do, Senator Chandler. I don't normally take interjections from you—