Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

We will stand up for the 126,000 workers who will not be employed in regional Australia as a result of the government's carbon tax. We will stand up for the 24,000 mining workers—particularly the coal workers of the Hunter and the Illawarra—who will lose their jobs under the government's carbon tax. We will stand up for these workers. I say to the manufacturing workers of this country: you have a friend in the coalition.

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