Senator ABETZ (Tasmania—Leader of the Government in the Senate, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Minister for Employment) (14:07): For Senator Milne to have read down to the very bottom of the Toyota media release, indicating that free trade agreements were an issue, means that she must have read the first two points that Toyota made: number one was the high Australian dollar and secondly, the cost of manufacturing. Cost of manufacturing? Let me think— Senator Cormann: Carbon tax! Senator ABETZ: Oh, carbon tax! Carbon tax, rated as the number two by Toyota and glossed over by Senator Milne in a complete and utter disregard as to what her extreme Green policies that she inflicted on the Labor Party—and they went along with—have done to the Australian workforce in the manufacturing sector. Let there be no doubt that the carbon tax is a job destroyer, and in not so many words that is exactly what Toyota has said— Senator Whish-Wilson: Mr President I rise on a point of order, on relevance. Senator Abetz has not even attempted to answer the question on specific comments relating to free trade and risks to free trade agreements in Toyota's media release. The PRESIDENT: There is no point of order. Senator Abetz is addressing the question. Senator ABETZ: What I would say to Senator Milne is: do not misquote Toyota when they have put it fair and square on the high Australian dollar—the first issue raised in their media release—and the second issue was the cost of manufacturing and, as I was able to point out in a Sydney Institute speech recently, a change to their workplace agreement which would not see one extra red cent spent by the company and the workers not taking one red cent less home—in other words, wages being maintained—where they could have put an extra 2,000 working days onto the factory floor each and every year. Now, that might have done something to the cost of manufacturing. But when that was tried, the union intervened to stop the workers having a say on whether or not they could vote for the protection of their own jobs.