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

We've demonstrated, over the last few short months, our determination to intervene when it's in the national interest. We've intervened in the Nyrstar facilities in Hobart and in the Nyrstar facilities in Port Pirie. We've acted with the South Australian government to protect our national interest in terms of the steel industry, and we've moved with the LNP government in Queensland to protect the interests of not just Glencore in Mount Isa but that whole industrial system, acting to secure thousands and thousands of jobs.

That stands in stark contrast to the approach that was adopted by those opposite in government, when 40,000 jobs in the auto sector in Victoria were offshored deliberately in a vengeful, wilfully nasty kind of way. We have acted to intervene, and we will continue to do that. (Time expired)