Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Ford Australia has announced that there will be a reduction in the number of employees this year in the Broadmeadows stamping, casting and engine plants. There have also been announcements in Geelong in regard to Unidrive, PBR Bosch and Kenworth Australia. I am afraid that the opposition has failed to grasp some fundamentals when it comes to the economics of manufacturing in this country. They did their very best to undermine manufacturing for the 12 years in which they were in office. They took the view that manufacturing was someone else’s problem. (Time expired)