Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I notice some Liberal Senators shaking their heads and I am unsurprised, because investment means jobs. If the National Party's new platform is that we do not want more jobs in regional Australia, why not fess up to it? Why not come down and have a chat to Alexander Downer, who wrote a column recently in the Adelaide Advertiser extolling the virtues of foreign investment? Clearly, what we have here is either the policy of the coalition when it comes to foreign investment is being dictated by Senator Barnaby Joyce and his colleagues or Senator Nash is out of line here and Mr Abbott lied to the Chinese government when he went there and said he supported—