Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

As I say, we have these matters under active consideration at the moment and are in dialogue with the United States about them. Unfortunately, we don't have an Australian car industry anymore, just as we wouldn't have a battery industry if the coalition had its way either.

It is a little confusing to understand what the coalition's plan on this is because we have Mr Joyce out there saying that he doesn't like imported batteries while we've got the rest of them saying that they don't like homegrown batteries. We saw Senator McKenzie, the infrastructure and transport spokesperson for the coalition, saying that it's not the coalition's plan to ban Chinese-made vehicles. Maybe the coalition's plan is to have no vehicles at all. They don't want to ban Chinese vehicles. They don't want Australian-made vehicles. Maybe it's back to the horse-and-buggy days under the coalition. We certainly know that that's their approach when it comes to policy generally. But we'll be continuing to work on these cybersecurity matters.