These were the words of Opposition Defence Minister Andrew Hastie this week commenting that the Government needs to support the manufacturing industry to become more self-sufficient to deliver secure supply chains and a diverse ‘renewables and clean energy economy’ CEO of Weld Australia Geoff Crittenden tells Michael McLaren that while the Australian Government has a policy of such fiscal conservatism, we haven’t got past the first post, unlike countries like the US, UK, Japan and South Korea.

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