Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. What are some of the elements of the Albanese Labor government's plan for A Future Made in Australia, and how's is it strengthening our economy and our communities after a decade of neglect?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member from the McEwen for his question. To go off the questions that have been asked for those opposite, one of the things we don't make in Australia anymore is motor vehicles because those people over there told them to leave. They told them to leave. They didn't think it was worthwhile.

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

The member for Petrie will cease interjecting.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This government's position is very different. We believe in a future made here in Australia. We believe in greater diversity of what we can make. We believe that we need to train and upskill Australians to make high-value complex manufacturing all the way through.

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

Order! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition—

Order! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition, if I call your name that's the ideal time to stop. We're just going to make sure that, as the question was heard in silence, the same curtesy is going to be given to the person answering the question. We're just going to take temperature down for the remainder of this answer.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

One of things we have done is the National Reconstruction Fund. It's already in discussions with companies.

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

Order! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is now warned. I can't be fairer than that.

Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We're worried about manufacturers!

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

The Deputy Leader of the Opposition will leave the chamber under standing order 94(a). If I'm warning you, that is definitely not the time to interject.

The member for Farrer then left the chamber.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The NRF that doesn't have a colour coded spreadsheet, the NRF that actually requires companies to come forward and have business cases in order to get funding and co-investment from the government—that's the process that we are doing.

We believe that you can have cheaper, cleaner energy—making sure that we value-add, making sure that we make more things here and making sure that, in areas such as the former coal-fired power stations that shut under their watch across there, we make use of that access—to make things at those locations rather than have a nuclear power plant, a nuclear reactor from the nuclear reactionaries over there. That's their vision going forward as well.

We see practical examples with the deal just announced and completed in the last fortnight for 100 Boxers being made in Redbank in Queensland—an example of where this heavy weapon carrier will be exported to Germany—a deal worth $1 billion to the Australian economy, a deal in which 600 direct jobs will be created in Queensland alone, with flow-on effects right across the supply chain. That's why you need to make things here, to make sure that you have that expansionary economy and that you are also not dependent just upon imports for things that are critical. That's why we have our critical minerals plan. That's why we are engaging in making more things here in Australia. It is a fundamental belief that this government is putting in place day by day, right across the portfolios.