Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. The minister would be aware that last Friday the Minister for Resources and Energy took responsibility for the damage an emissions trading scheme could do to industries in his portfolio, and he consequently convened a summit of companies that could be forced to shut down or to shed jobs because of an ETS. I ask the minister: when is he going to take similar responsibility for the impact on our manufacturing sector of a rushed and poorly designed emissions trading scheme, and when is he going to call a summit of manufacturing companies to talk these issues through?