Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

That is right. Indeed, these centres that Senator Carr is bandying around as some new policy—a $500 million policy—just replicate our productivity centres. So at least the Labor Party is consistent. At least Senator Carr is consistent. The Labor Party actually take everything—and we have just had further confirmation of that. Rather than the claptrap that we heard earlier, I will give the chamber some of the actual statistics in relation to manufacturing. Senator Carr, if you get out your pen and jot some of these statistics down, I think you will be a lot wiser at the end of this 20 minutes.