Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Science) Share this | Hansard source

We had a Liberal defence minister who said you wouldn't trust Australian shipbuilders to build a canoe, a Liberal Treasurer here who dared car makers to leave. Those opposite tried to stop the national broadband network and then had to crawl back to do the right thing. They opposed the Button plan as well, superannuation—all the big calls they've continually opposed, never been there. And, when they had a chance to support manufacturers with the energy relief bill that we put through, when manufacturers needed access to better priced gas, they voted against it. They voted against Australian manufacturing continually. They have learnt nothing, they stand for nothing and they deliver nothing; they oppose everything. That is their standard.

I just want to make this point: you cannot be a party of the working class and pull the rug out from underneath the working class in the way your government did with manufacturing in this country—an absolutely shameful chapter.

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