Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That, recognising the necessity to preserve manufacturing in Australia to address rising unemployment and the plight of people about to be dismissed at Pacific Brands, the House:

(1)

calls on the Government to:

(a)

introduce ‘an emergency measure under WTO rules’ to provide an interim 15 per cent tariff on goods that are imported to replace textile clothing and footwear (TCF) items such as those produced at Pacific Brands; and

(b)

abandon its intention to abolish the existing TCF tariff regime; and

(2)

directs the Government to finance a loan to allow Pacific Brands workers to purchase significant shareholdings in the company through salary sacrifice arrangements in order to purchase a share issue made to provide the refinancing funds needed to enable continued manufacturing by Pacific Brands in Australia.

to present a bill for an act to amend the Trade Practices Act 1974.

to present a bill for an act to amend the Quarantine Proclamation 1998.

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