Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President. Through you: Mike Devereux said it. In fact, the former industry minister, Kim Carr, also made some suggestions in terms of the government policies and what they did. Kim Carr said:

Unfortunately the Green Car Innovation Fund was abolished, leaving international company executives wondering just what they had to do to get a consistent government policy commitment in Australia.

So there we have it. It is not just the coalition saying it; it is Mike Devereux saying that the conditions put in place by the former Labor government hurt and changed the game, and it is Kim Carr, the former industry minister, saying that the Labor Party changed the policy and that undermined the industry because it was hard to get consistent government policy in Australia under the Labor Party. This is rank hypocrisy from the Labor Party and should be seen as such. (Time expired)