Prime Minister Julia Gillard has further entrenched her appeal to Australia's blue collar workers by reiterating her support for auto industry subsidies and saying her job is to run the economy “in the interest of working people”, while accusing the Coalition of supporting wealthy voters at the expense of blue collar workers, according to a report by The Australian.
Ms Gillard dismissed Coalition claims that Labor's carbon tax will hurt the country's already weakened manufacturing sector, calling it a “disgusting” example of scaremongering.
However, Coalition leader Tony Abbott's claims were supported by Alcoa managing director Alan Cransberg, who yesterday said the carbon tax would increase pressure on his company, which yesterday announced a review into the future of its Point Henry aluminium smelter at Geelong.
“Obviously post July 1 that will make life more difficult for us,” Mr Cransberg said, according to The Australian, referring to the carbon tax. “Post July 1 we have obviously got another challenge to overcome and we're very keen on doing that.”
But yesterday Ms Gillard insisted her government supporting the manufacturing sector.
“We, unlike Mr Abbott, believe that the economy should be run in the interest of working people, that we should have a diverse economy for the future, that manufacturing should take its part and that the car industry needs to be part of that.”
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