Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question, and I say to the member—you don't get to verbal someone through a question—that this is directly what I said. Here is the House of Representatives Hansard from last Thursday. This is what I said:

That's why we, the Commonwealth government, are investing $300 million to grow plantations, modernise our timber manufacturing infrastructure and build the skills of our forestry workforce.

Tick!

I note that through the National Reconstruction Fund we specifically set aside funding to support the forestry industry.

Tick! But the member for Gippsland voted against it, and everyone here voted against it as well—tick; tick. That is what I said last Thursday, and the member came to this dispatch box and pretended that I said something else. That is the Hansard from last Thursday. I stand by those comments and I stand by the National Reconstruction Fund. I stand by the $15 billion for manufacturing. I stand by the $3 billion for renewables and low-emissions technologies. I stand by the $1½ billion for medical manufacturing. I stand by the billion dollars for value adding—

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