Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Minister for Industry) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question but at this stage we are not working on the pretext that Holden is leaving the country; we are working on the pretext that the industry will continue. If the Labor Party were so concerned about the car industry's future, they would not have sat quietly by while Mitsubishi left the country, while Ford announced that they were leaving the country, while they introduced a $1.8 billion hit—

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