Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

We will do it so that our Australians will not have to pay higher prices. We as coalition members want to make sure that there is a manufacturing base in Australia and, in fact, not just a base but something that we can grow and expand on and that's what we are doing. That's what we're doing through the budget; that's what we are doing with our sensible policies. The member for Melbourne should begin to talk things up in Australia, not run us down, not tell other countries and write to their ambassadors they should deny Australian trade, because that's what he has done. Treasonous I would call that—absolute traitor!

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