Senate debates

Thursday, 30 October 2025

Questions without Notice

Tasmania: Manufacturing Industry

3:15 pm

Photo of Tammy TyrrellTammy Tyrrell (Tasmania, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

The federal government has already intervened in other industrial closures on the mainland, including South Australia's Whyalla steelworks, Queensland's Mount Isa copper smelter and New South Wales's Tomago aluminium smelter. Do you treat Tasmanian metal manufacturers—oh lord, oh lord, oh lord!—differently to mainland smelters? Yes, it's long!

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