Senator SINODINOS (New South Wales—Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science) (14:14): My memory, if it serves me correct, is that Mitsubishi announced plans to close in 2008. I remember in 2013 Toyota announced that it would be closing in Australia. Regrettably, last week we had confirmation that that will occur in October of this year. The decline of manufacturing in the automotive sector in this country was something overseen by the Labor Party. It went too far for us to be able to reverse it, so what we are doing is easing the transition into an import sales model with more focus on research and development.
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