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

Renewable energy projects, delivering cheaper energy and more jobs—that is how you deliver cost-of-living relief, not by pushing up power prices with the most expensive form of energy going.

Every time we have sought to back Australian manufacturing, the Liberals and Nationals have opposed it. When we wanted to set up the National Reconstruction Fund, the Liberals and Nationals opposed it. When we wanted to deliver energy price relief for manufacturers, the Liberals and Nationals opposed it. And, when we wanted to deliver tax cuts for manufacturing workers, the Liberals and Nationals wanted an early election to stop them. Of course, this is the mob that saw off car manufacturing in this country and, to this day, say it was absolutely the right thing to do. That's what they say. This government believes manufacturing can deliver a future made in Australia; that side only talks about manufacturing to talk it down.

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