Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

The coalition are on record as having no commitment to the manufacturing industry and are certainly not helping it to compete in a low-carbon global economy. Labor is supporting the automotive sector, but the opposition have a plan to cut that support by $1.5 billion. This plan will cripple a key sector and destroy the 46,000 jobs and the 200,000 broader jobs that rely on the auto sector. Further, the opposition have voted against supporting steelworkers. They are saying no to clean energy and to jobs in manufacturing and beyond. They say no to the mining tax, no to the 12 per cent superannuation for workers and no to investing in the National Broadband Network. The opposition say no to health reform, no to a fairer industrial relations system, no to the GFC stimulus— (Time expired)