I absolutely agree that Australia should rebuild its manufacturing base. Sadly, though, One Nation’s voting record tells a different story. It’s one thing to advocate for manufacturing on social media, but when it comes to voting in Parliament, your party too often goes missing. If we’re serious about rebuilding Australian industry, the votes have to match the rhetoric.

It's absolutely possible with robotics advancements factories don't rely on humans anymore, we can do it, we have all the raw materials. tariffs cheap imports to get it going

I knew when Ford and Holden closed up that the uniparty is on a mission to make Australia a 3rd world country

Maybe Gina could invest in solar panel manufacturing.

Individual families that have a comfortable life, make things, including meals, landscaping, clothes/repairs. Also DIY - mechanics, hairdressing, yard & home maintenence, growing herbs, veg, fruit.

I am lucky to still work in a Australian manufacturer we make medical lights for hospitals ,handrail lighting , and fish farm lights we made some of the lights for the Paris Olympics and we send to overseas countries we are lucky aswell to be in a small country town

Music to my ears, I’ve been saying this since G Whiltam started of shoring our manufacturing base to China. Liberals kept the progression going and today we are no longer self sufficient. Charity starts at home

Ain't no one gonna but an $8000 washin' machine made in Austrlia. If, however, you can get your mate Gina's idea of payin' Australians $2 a day then an Ozzie made washin' machine might be cheap, eh?

Yes yes yes Malcolm.

Australia has the capacity to manufacture world class vaccines

I’m guessing that we might only be competitive if robots did most of the work as in modern car production in other countries. Problem though ,maybe the wages for the robot operators and maintenance people would have to be too high in this high cost of living country

On the 20th of July 1978, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrew Peacock gave an address to the Victorian Branch of the Australian lnstitute of lnternational Affairs. The following is a text from that speech page 5 quote "The transfer of technology to developing countries is another basic concern. We are participating actively in the work in the United Nations system aimed at drawing up a code of conduct for the transfer of technology. I am convinced that the developing countries would make rapid strides if the technology appropriate to their needs was made much more freely available to them. It is clear that the research and development capacity of the developed countries could be readily and relatively cheaply directed to that objective. In the field of lndustrialization Australia has broadly accepted the Lima Declaration and Plan of action on lndustrial development and cooperation We will therefore assist in action designed to accelerate industrialised in developing countries and we will be participating fully in the relevant international consultations on that objective." The Lima Declaration and Plan of Action March 1975, Since that time 1975 on Australia has lost the majority of its manufacturing base and over 200,000 family farms . That's what the Lima Declaration was to deliberately shut down Australian industries and shift them across to the third world then import the goods back that we used to produce here. Just in case you have trouble reading this l will spell it out for this is what the Australian Treasury said in 1979. "In this sense,the NIEO proposals as presented in the UN have serious adverse implications for Australia's security and economic welfare. Moreover an lnternational economic system that involved the exercise of substantive economic or other powers by lnternational institutions could impinge on Australia's sovereignty in ways that could have serious implications for the nature of Australian society. " This is what a Liberal / National Coalition Government accepted and ratified. My blood has been boiling since the day I read this some 35 years ago, l will leave it up to you too work out if they are lying traitorous barsteds l worked it out long ago The Lima Declaration spelt the beginning of the end for family farmers and manufacturing in Australia and 99.9 % of the population doesn't even know Wakeup. Stop voting for your own Destruction.

It’s a bit more complicated than that Mr Robert’s

I have worked in Australian manufacturing for years and still do. I absolutly love my job becouse the quality we produce im lucky enough to have experienced these amazing workplaces that made Australia great.

Thank you 🙏 Senator Malcolm Roberts! We can build a better Australia 🇦🇺 together!

But , witlam signed the Lima agreement 1974 . The rest is history. U know it most know it . Just like Paris agreement Scrap both . Not going to happen. Is it Malcom.

Whitlam Started it the rest followed like a Mob of Sheep

Australia has the land to grow hemp plants, we could be a world leader. Imagine how many products these plants could produce and how many jobs it would create. Henry Ford back in his day built a fleet of cars the 1941 prototype built from plant based bioplastics which ran on hemp-based ethanol. Hemp products could also replace most of the toxic plastics.

Of course, One Nation would oppose any improvement in wages or workers' conditions in the industry.

You've been in the senate for 9 years and done nothing but get your bots to make a meme about it

Victoria has 65% water in our dams and reportedly the desal plant is on. With over 40 data centers and more being built, immigrants still coming in, will we have enough drinking water even with restrictions this summer in Victoria. I really am not sure if we can manufacture in Victoria if it requires water.

Will need to increase immigration to do that!😊

There won’t be any thing left

Certainly no lights on in your house Malcolm.

Could you please repost this in English?

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What's the answer Roberts, man of the world , tell us the answer .

renewables hit 77.9 % supply to the grid

When was the last blackout? Don’t remember one since the storm blew the towers over in SA. That was nature, not the grid.

Wait til the power goes out to keep the data centre's running.

So it was regular in the late 40's and 50s, and it was planned. The report is talking about WA, also power generation, and the integrity of the system is a State decision.

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Bills are too high, no argument there. But let's be honest about the rest of your clap trap. Australia never had "the world's cheapest" power. Our best-ever result was 4th cheapest in the OECD back in 2004, and we're mid-pack among developed nations now. Cheapest on earth? Never was. Coal was never "clean." It's the highest-emitting way to make electricity, full stop. Calling it clean doesn't make it so. And "reliable"? Our coal fleet averages 38 years old and broke down around 128 times last summer, roughly eight times more than the market operator expected. During the November 2024 NSW heatwave a third of the state's coal units were offline and AEMO issued blackout warnings. Batteries held the grid up that day, not coal. The biggest single thing on your bill isn't renewables, it's the network: the poles and wires, 30 to 50 per cent of the total. The wholesale spikes come from expensive gas and coal tripping in the heat. "Involuntary load shedding" isn't a Labor invention either. It's standard grid-engineering language used worldwide, including in Texas, for decades. Here's where I actually land I'm pro-nuclear, and I think small modular thorium molten-salt reactors are the real prize. Copenhagen Atomics has done serious engineering, full-scale prototypes and over two years of continuous molten-salt pump operation, and they're on a credible path to a critical fission test by 2028 with commercial units targeted for the early 2030s. That's the conversation worth having what we build next. Not a fairy tale about coal being clean, blackout-proof and the cheapest power on the planet. The moment you check that story, it falls apart in your hands.

So we never had power outages before renewables?

Read an article released by ICA (Insurance council of Australia) that they directly blame the government’s first home buyers scheme for pushing us out the market and pushing up prices on home purchases and rates. Interesting.

So easy to point the finger and the blame, stir up the masses. Maybe you could spend more time as a Party penciling some actual policies (and getting someone to show you how to use a fax machine so that all your party members know exactly what those policies are.)

We have less blackouts now than 20 years ago. Typical misinformation.

The power companies are willingly building both solar and wind farms. The main issue is with the grid not the source.

Checking back on my comment thread at 7.34pm to some dude called Stephen Carroll where my witty and accurate take down of his support for Malcolm’s post was deleted by team Malcolm. Now they’ve even deleted poor ol mate Stephen’s response along with my comeback. Sad, so sad when a challenge to truth gets squashed.

Oh...the IPA....how credible

this shows that they cannot tell the truth even if it bit them!

Your big problem is that all the old coal fires power stations are at the end of their life. You need to rebuild them. Does your economic modelling take that into account? None of the power companies want to rebuild them, they’ll have to be government funded, what services are you going to cut to finance the rebuild, and how many public servants will you have to employ to run the government corporation you need to establish.

It's all part of the Socialist Communist agenda.

Any data centre in this country will not have enough energy to power up.

You say things but they are just not true. The old coal powered system is not reliable, not environmentally responsible, about as unclean as possible, and will become an economic albatross as other countries hit us with tariffs for our irresponsible lack of carbon pricing.

And they are also pushing to have all households "upgraded" by 2030 to smart electricity meters which I understand will give them the capacity to remotely switch off your power supply at will ~ I have just received a notice from Origin Energy implying this "upgrade" is mandatory and I cannot opt out of it ~ what are your thoughts on this issue Senator Malcolm Roberts