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

Nothing upsets them more than to hear that jobs are being protected. Nothing upsets them more. This is the same mob that told the car industry to bugger off. What we think and understand is that jobs are important and that we need to make more things here in Australia. We can't just be at the end of global supply chains. We have the raw materials, the skilled workforce and the renewable energy capacity, as well as the aspiration and the motivation to build for the future. We take that challenge and the opportunity seriously, because what we announced at Tomago today is just one part of that vision.

Whether it's our manufacturing capability at the Boyne smelter, at the Whyalla steelworks, at Glencore in Mount Isa or at Nyrstar in Port Pirie and whether it's our fuel security or investing in our critical minerals industry, those jobs, those industries and those opportunities are in our national interest. That's why Labor is committed to investing in a future made in Australia, to modernising our national energy grid, to securing sovereign capability and our resilience, to backing Australian industry here and now and to investing in jobs and industries so as to set Australia up for a prosperous future.

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