Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Yet again—and I have been away for three days—I thank Madam Speaker for her advice. I will not use the word goaded—encouraged to leave this country, is a better way to put it. There have been senior ministers backgrounding not against Holden but against thousands of jobs in this country.

Anyway, today some in the government have got what they wanted. There has been a game of high-stakes political poker played, and unfortunately the bluff was called—and the losers are thousands of Australian automotive workers and their families. Holden said very clearly yesterday that a decision had not been made. Something has changed in the past 24 hours.

Honourable members interjecting—

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