Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the government continues to blame the woes of the aluminium industry on the fact that the aluminium price is $1,800 a tonne and that the industry needs government assistance at that price, why didn't the Australian aluminium industry need government assistance in 2009 and 2005, when the aluminium price was also at that level?