Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

First, it is true that we no longer manufacture cars in Australia—and thank you for reminding us of that, because we in South Australia will never forget Joe Hockey standing at the floor of that chamber and daring the car industry to leave, and being so proud. That was in your Productivity Commission phase. They were so proud to be the Liberal government that stopped working with car manufacturers to ensure that we no longer have car manufacturing in this country.