Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What did Labor do? Nothing. Is shipbuilding important in South Australia? I think it is. I think South Australians know it, and they know that it was the Labor Party that abandoned them.

And what about the Labor Party's brilliant management of the energy supply in South Australia. We need to have reliable, affordable power. Yes, we need to cut our emissions and we are doing so. But you have to be able to keep the lights on. You have to be able to keep the wheels of industry turning. The Labor Party abandoned the workers in those businesses. The Labor Party's energy present to South Australia is the least reliable and the most expensive wholesale energy in the country.

Nobody has less moral right to talk about workers' jobs and the manufacturing industry than Labor members from South Australia. You abandoned the workers in South Australia. You abandoned the workers at Osborne. It is the Liberal Party and the National Party, our coalition, that has given them hope for an advanced manufacturing future. We did that. We are building up an advanced manufacturing base in South Australia. The Labor Party abandoned South Australia, they abandoned those workers and they abandoned those jobs.

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