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

I suppose they'll get a question at some point this week, I guess. But the alternative views, the people standing in the way of the National Reconstruction Fund and the Future Made in Australia program—which is Australia's largest ever pro-manufacturing package—are poor old One Nation, Mr Boyce and his friends over here in the once-proud National Party, and the Liberal Party, who have opposed electricity development for industry in Australia, who have opposed the National Reconstruction Fund, delivering 520 jobs in this one announcement in regional Australia, and who have an utterly contemptible approach to industrial policy. You hear Senator McKenzie: 'He got a swing to him.' Well, what happened when he was in government? Industrial jobs flooded offshore—imported ideas, exported manufacturing jobs.