Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Canavan. I'm very pleased, I have to say, with what Mr Farrow, as leader of the Australian Workers' Union—his union has very strong membership and has a rich history of collective bargaining and representing that important sector, Australian manufacturing—has had to say about the importance of that sector. And I'm really pleased with the collaborative approach that the labour movement has taken, with Mr Murphy from the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union and Mr Farrow on a unity ticket focused on the issues that matter for that sector and their members. That's a sort of lesson in working-class discipline and focus, and it wouldn't hurt—