Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Science) Share this | Hansard source

We want to ensure that that manufacturing occurs onshore. It's a bit rich for them to suddenly come in here and ask what the National Reconstruction Fund will be able to do for regional communities when they never ever backed the fund. They were never prepared to back manufacturing and were not prepared to engage in this. From a variety of different sources—native hardwoods through to plantation—if there are products where we want to be able to value-add and produce those products here onshore, we want to support that.

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