Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I do have a brief here that Senator Carr might not be quite as keen for me to read, which I am happy to talk to. What I will say to the honourable senator is that the fringe benefits changes that you proposed were going to cost $100,000 in annual production for the automotive industry. I will just go through some figures with your colleague from Victoria, the great job wrecker of the automotive industry in this country. These are some very interesting figures. Automotive industry employment averaged 45,007 people in the four quarters to August 2013, down from 50,376 in the same period in 2012. Just out of interest, Senator— (Time expired)