Senate debates

Tuesday, 21 August 2018

Questions without Notice

Manufacturing

2:07 pm

Photo of Michaelia CashMichaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Jobs and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Again, when you create the right economic framework—and that obviously includes policies that are good for business, for example, lower taxes, less regulation, investing in infrastructure and signing on to free trade agreements—you see positive results across the entire economy. And under the Turnbull government's positive economic policies we are seeing jobs created across the board. As I have said, almost 1.1 million jobs the economy has created since we came into office, and this includes in manufacturing. The manufacturing sector in Australia is transforming, and what we're doing as a government is putting in place those policies which are supporting our manufacturers to innovate, and, through their innovation, they are able to create more jobs. For example, through our industry-led growth centres initiative, we're investing in sectors that we know have a competitive strength and opportunities to go global. And a number of businesses that were once just here in Australia are now operating to a global— (Time expired)

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