Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

No, I am putting that from the point of view of investment certainty. They wanted the certainty to feed into their investment decisions. In that regard I refer people to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald on 6 May 2009, which says:

BLUESCOPE Steel’s plan to build a $1 billion-plus co-generation plant to lower greenhouse gas emissions from its blast furnaces at Port Kembla has emerged as the first major casualty of the Federal Government’s decision to delay the start of the proposed emissions trading scheme by at least a year.

So what I would say to the member is that it does pay to run a fine-tooth comb over the series of claims which will inevitably be made publicly during the course of this debate. What I would then say to the member, broadly, on manufacturing jobs—

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