Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Investors demand it. Insurance demands it. And consumers demand it. That's the key to our bright manufacturing future, and that's the key to our reforms. When you put the National Reconstruction Fund together with the safeguard reforms, you see a real plan for Australian manufacturing.

The Climate Council put it well when they said, 'The era of climate gridlock in Australia is over.' The era of climate gridlock in Australia is over, because this government gets things done. This Prime Minister gets things done. And what gridlock led to was investment uncertainty. What gridlock leads to is a lack of investment in jobs and job creation. What getting rid of gridlock fixes is the roadblock to a better manufacturing future for Australia, and, under this government, we will be a country that makes things.

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