Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

We have local content rules in our infrastructure, and we have local job and training requirements too. On their side, they have a shadow Treasurer who calls support for Australian industries a 'wasted effort'. That's what he said to the Minerals Council of Australia when he was advocating the scrapping of local content policies with the closure of aluminium refining in Australia.

While this government is working to deliver a future made in Australia, particularly in our regions, the coalition—

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Yes, I have, thank you—wants a future made overseas.

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