It's always pleasing to speak to one of the member for Forde's private members' business motions. He's a very enthusiastic member. A lot of his content is quite misguided, but I love his enthusiasm. The manufacturing industry and heavy industry in this country are dying, and that's directly due to the Albanese Labor government's policies. To have a look at productivity, if you look at the front page of the Aus this morning, they've said that productivity in this country has fallen through the floor. As a matter of fact, it's fallen to the worst situation in the history of productivity information. That goes right back to the 1960s. This is directly proportional to Labor's policies—their high tax, their overtax, their industrial relations mess and their red tape.

Because of the Albanese Labor government's failed policies, they've had to bail out heavy industry. In the Hunter, they bailed out Tomago Aluminium to the tune of $1.275 billion; in Mount Isa in Queensland, Glencore got $300 million; in Port Pirie, South Australia, Nyrstar got $57.5 million; in Hobart, Tasmania, Nyrstar got $57.5 million; in Whyalla, South Australia, the steelworks got $1.1 billion; in Gladstone in Queensland, the Boyne aluminium smelter has been bailed out the tune of $1 billion. That's a total bailout from the Albanese Labor government of $3.7 billion and change.

The coalition said a long time ago that we need a Senate inquiry into the heavy metals manufacturing industry in Australia. The Albanese Labor government said, 'No, we're not going to do that.' We couldn't believe that, because we knew that they were facing headwinds. So why wait till the very last second and then have to bail them out? The worst thing about this is it's going to happen again because the Albanese Labor government has brought in the safeguard mechanism. That's what they call it, but let's call it what it really is, carbon tax 2.0.