House debates
Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Statements by Members
Future Made in Australia
1:58 pm
Tania Lawrence (Hasluck, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
The coalition are just starting to realise that the Albanese government's Future Made in Australia policy is not just good; it's pretty popular too. The students up here in the gallery will know that. We know it's starting to bite when the member for Fairfax comes in here and says that he doesn't like the name of the bill. Well, too bad! It's a framework for a future made in Australia. If the coalition had spent any of the last two years on policy development rather than on their silly nuclear fantasy, then they could have had their own vision of a future made in Australia, but they don't. Instead, they can't accept the science. Instead, the member for Mallee thinks green hydrogen, which is starting to be manufactured all around the world, is still experimental. Instead, the member for Riverina thinks we are rushing to renewables, as though that's a bad thing, and he reckons we need to have another look at the coalition's three-eyed nuclear red herring. Instead, the member for Hume, without any shame, tries to use the term 'pork-barrelling', on which he could write a book. Instead, the member for Hinkler thinks that a national interest framework is no basis for decision-making!
Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Order! Members on my left will cease interjecting.
Tania Lawrence (Hasluck, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Seriously, these contributions from the opposition range from the daft to the ludicrous.
Meanwhile, back home in Hasluck, cutting-edge companies like BJC, Centurion and Hofmann Engineering are getting on with it, because the Albanese government has instilled the confidence and the business certainty to get on with making a future in Australia. (Time expired)
Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
In accordance with standing order 43, the time for members' statements has concluded.