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503 - Regional Transport and Roads - GOVERNMENT'S COMMITMENT TO STRATEGIC DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING PLAN

Farraway, Sam to the Minister for Jobs and Tourism, Special Minister of State, Minister for Roads, Minister for the Arts, and Minister for Music and the Night-time Economy representing the Minister for Regional Transport and Roads
GOVERNMENT'S COMMITMENT TO STRATEGIC DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING PLAN

(1) Will the Government reaffirm its commitment to establish a strategic domestic manufacturing and industry plan which includes the following actions:

(a) Direct Government investment to build the capacity of local manufacturing in strategic areas?

(b) Prioritise the building and servicing of all trains and buses in Australia and where viable, in New South Wales?

 
Answer -

I am advised

Yes.

The former Liberal-National government went to great efforts to undermine local manufacturing, which included procuring heavy rail rolling stock from China and South Korea, metro rolling stock from India, light rail rolling stock from France and Spain and ferries from China and Indonesia.

 

 

 

Question asked on 15 June 2023 (session 58-1) and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 27
Answer received on 6 July 2023 and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 42

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