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

It will be no surprise but a great disappointment for the chamber to hear me say that the Labor Party has no science and industry policy direction at all. Ours is deliberate, thorough and detailed. The Labor Party just threw money at problems. Of course, the real cause of that was Senator Carr, virtually a Peter Pan on steroids, who just flapped around. As was quite rightly described by former Senator Richardson:

… (Kim Il Carr to friends and foe alike) the undisputed champion of Labor’s lost causes. This bloke wanted to continue to throw more—

money—

at the car industry and is completely ignorant of both Labor history and modern thinking. Someone should tell him the Berlin Wall came down a quarter of a century ago, around the same time Hawke and Keating sold off TAA and Commonwealth Bank, and opened Telstra up to competition. Someone should tell Carr his war is over.

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