Judith Troeth (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I am sure that Senator Conroy, as a Victorian senator, has read of the recent closure of Mollison Motors in Kyneton, a 60-year-old company, which had its sad end yesterday when its 55 new cars were auctioned off by receivers in Melbourne yesterday as a result of the company losing finance. Such car auctions are another blow to Australia’s new car sales, which collapsed by 22 per cent in the last month. How many more car dealers will have to close and how many more jobs, which you and your government profess to be so interested in, will be lost before the government acts?