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

(Victoria—) (): We have indicated that we are prepared to bring forward some entitlements under the Australian steel industry structural adjustment arrangements as a result of the measures we are introducing on climate change. This is a reasonable approach in the circumstances. We have this unprecedented set of conditions that relate to the steel industry. It is incumbent upon governments to work with companies, to work with workers, to work with regions to actually assist in the process of adjustment. You would have thought we would have heard more from the opposition about working to ensure that Australia is able to face up to its responsibilities. You would have thought by now this opposition might have come to terms with the fact that they actually rejected the support that we are providing to the steel industry. I am afraid it is not a position that has been taken in New South Wales, where the state government has come on board with the $30 million Innovation Investment Fund— (Time expired)