Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, the fact is there have been a number of announcements of redundancies in the Australian automotive industry. That has, of course, come about as a result of a quite serious downturn in the changes that have occurred within Australian manufacturing. There has been a period of some months now where we have seen a decline in a number of employment opportunities in manufacturing. The fact remains, though, that since October last year the number of jobs has actually grown in total.