4th Feb 2021, 12:25 PM – Senate Motions - Manufacturing - The Nationals' Manufacturing 2035 plan

The majority voted in favour of paragraph (a) of a motion introduced by Victorian Senator Bridget McKenzie (Nationals), which means it passed. Motions like these don't make any legal changes on their own, but they are politically influential because they represent the will of the Senate

Motion text

That the Senate—

(a) notes The Nationals' Manufacturing 2035 plan to generate 800,000 jobs by:

(i) leveraging the regions' comparative advantage across strategic industries and their access to natural resources,

(ii) adding further value to regional exports by turning primary products into manufactured goods and complex products,

(iii) ensuring fibre processing is explicitly included as a manufacturing priority,

(iv) increasing trade efforts and growing exports,

(v) providing access to low-cost, long-term finance and tax incentives,

(vi) strengthening Australian Government procurement policies,

(vii) facilitating early exposure to trades and harmonisation of trade qualifications and employment conditions,

(viii) supporting Anti-Dumping Commission investigations and taking countervailing action against overseas subsidies,

(ix) investing in reliable, affordable energy and strategic infrastructure that supports manufacturing, and

(x) investing in oil and gas development including finding new sources of oil supplies; ...