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

Thank you, Senator Mulholland, again, for the question. What the Liberals and Nationals have done is import weird, extremist foreign ideas and export Australian manufacturing jobs whenever they've had the chance. This government, by contrast, is providing a partnership with the private sector in the investment community, which is delivering good-quality blue-collar jobs, good-quality engineering and trades opportunities, and good opportunities for start-up Australian businesses that will rebuild the manufacturing sector that Senator Canavan and Senator McKenzie and all these characters over there have been utterly dedicated to destroying. We will work with industry to deliver the future electricity and future energy that is going to deliver manufacturing jobs for decades to come. That's what we're about.