Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Why is the Abbott government abandoning these shipbuilding jobs just as it abandoned workers at Toyota, Ford, Holden and Qantas? Doesn't the minister's failure to stand up for these jobs confirm yet again that this is just another step in this government's plan to kill Australia's manufacturing industry and tell more lies to the Australian public?