Sophie Mirabella (Indi, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak against the amendments. I was not going to but I was moved by the sheer hypocrisy of the statements made by the member for Melbourne. When I hear a member of the Greens talk about Australian jobs in manufacturing I get very angry, because I have seen the result of the Greens blackmailing the other side of the House into supporting the world's biggest carbon tax and I have seen that impact across manufacturing businesses across the country. These amendments make a bad bill worse and they are not genuinely intended for the interests of manufacturers. I tell you what has happened to manufacturing under this regime. We have seen 140,000 manufacturing jobs go—

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