Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The biggest obstacle, of course, is those opposite. One wonders why they'd be so opposed to revitalising Australian manufacturing, why they'd be so opposed to securing our economy. Why don't they support Australian manufacturing? Why is it? Why don't they support economic sovereignty? Why don't they support Australian jobs? We see a coalition that simply wants to say no. We have a plan to address the key challenges facing Australians and the Australian economy—relief, repair, restraint, investment in Australian capacity, investment in Australian jobs.

Those opposite have no plan. They left us with a trillion dollars in debt, a massive skills shortage and a hollowed out manufacturing sector, and now they're standing in the way of the solutions to the very problems they created.