Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The Abbott government are setting a new direction for industry policy focused on new jobs, new investments and making Australian industry more competitive. There were under the previous government a plethora of programs which were spending enormous amounts of money for little or no outcome. This government make absolutely no apologies for introducing a range of targeted measures to ensure that we give manufacturing workers and other workers in this country the very best chance to transition through what is an incredibly difficult time. We are determined to ensure that Australian manufacturing and Australian manufacturers have the very best chance, including abolition of the carbon— (Time expired)