Penny Allman-Payne (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Temporary Chair. The coalition have been reduced to cynical attempts at grabbing a headline rather than actually engaging with workers and the future of industry in this country. Just the other day, Senator Canavan and the members for Capricornia and Flynn got together and declared that Gladstone should be home to the $368 billion nuclear submarines. It is breathtakingly out of touch to think that the future of Gladstone is in a hypothetical nuclear submarine in the distant future rather than the very real opportunity we have right now to transition and build a strong manufacturing base. The Greens will be supporting the amendment that makes nuclear technology a prohibited investment.