Gordon Reid (Robertson, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Australian small businesses are the backbone of our communities, employing hundreds of thousands of Australians across our country. There are thousands of outstanding local businesses in my community on the Central Coast who provide exceptional goods and services with brilliant customer service. One such small business that is the epitome of this description is JG's Uniforms in Kincumber.

Janelle Graham began JG's Uniforms in 2007. It produces Australian-made high-quality skirts, dresses, tunics and skorts on the Central Coast. JG's Uniforms manufactures uniforms for Central Coast based primary and high schools.

It is important that as a community we support Australian-made goods and services which support sustainable Australian jobs. I am pleased to see a focus on Australian-made by the federal Labor government. COVID-19 showed us the importance of having the capacity to produce essential items in Australia and not to have to rely on other countries for our critical supply chains. We do not want to be a country that is at the end of the supply chain again.

I say to Janelle and to JG's Uniforms in Kincumber: keep up your marvellous and fantastic work. Our Central Coast community back our small businesses and we support Australian-made goods and services.