Industry minister Tim Ayres refuses to let strategic production operations shutter or move offshore, warning Australia would not only lose blue collar jobs, it would be far less likely to develop the cutting-edge industries that rely on their raw outputs.
In one of the most detailed defences yet of Labor’s bailouts of metal smelters and refineries, Senator Ayres on Tuesday laid out the links between the old and new industries …
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