Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

From the north to the south: I want to ask about manufacturing in my home state.

Mr Snowdon interjecting—

I have lived in Darwin and I loved being up there, as the member for Lingiari points out, but I love my home town of Elizabeth too, the place in which I was born, based largely around automotive manufacturing and the Holden factory, which still resides in it. When we talk about manufacturing, this government has a record you can tell in headlines. We remember the headline 'Hockey dares GM to leave.' There is no doubt about who was responsible for the decline of automotive manufacturing; in fact, there was a bit of a contest on between the former Treasurer Mr Hockey and the former Prime Minister Mr Abbott about who put the torpedo in the water. They used to brag about it prior to the consequences of their actions becoming apparent. These are consequences that the government has never released modelling for. It will not tell us how many workers will be made unemployed. Plenty of academic studies and plenty of figures from the South Australian government are out there, but this government has never copped to doing any work at all in terms of—

Mr Falinski interjecting—

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