Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the minister has presided over the loss of more than 105,000 manufacturing jobs, the worst manufacturing employment figures since current ABS records were first collected, and contractions in manufacturing activity for more than two years, will the minister now admit that the carbon tax will just make a terrible situation even worse?