Matt Burnell (Spence, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to take everyone on a bit of a history lesson. In 2013, the then Treasurer sat in this place and threatened General Motors Holden with closing up shop in my electorate of Spence. In 2014, the former prime minister Tony Abbott said that there would be a new horizon for the people of Spence, that jobs would be coming. In 2017 Holden shut, but those jobs never came to fruition. I'm proud to stand here as part of an Albanese Labor government that is committing to a national reconstruction fund, and I urge those opposite—

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Matt Burnell (Spence, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I urge those opposite—I'll take your interjections—to get on board when it comes to supporting Australian jobs and Australian manufacturing.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In accordance with standing order 43, the time for members' statements has concluded.