Manufacturing Week

23-May-2011

This week is National Manufacturing Week and what do all the following companies have in common? They all say that a go-it-alone carbon tax is bad for Australia. All these manufacturers and supply chain operators have spoken out against this manufacturing-destroying tax:
 
BlueScope Steel
OneSteel
GWA Group
CSR
Brickworks
Toyota Australia
Coca-Cola Amatil
Beak & Johnston
Bronte Industries
Bulla Dairy Foods
Bundaberg Sugar
Cheetham Salt
Food Spectrum Group
George Weston Foods
Goodman Fielder
Incitec Pivot
Kimberly-Clark
Laucke Flour Mills
Nestle Australia
Newmont Australia
Nutricia Australia
Queen Fine Foods
Orica
Reckitt Benckiser Australia
Sucrogen
Sugar Australia
Ward McKenzie
Yakult Australia
 
“It’s time for Julia Gillard to wake up from her delusional stupor and ditch the carbon tax,” said Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science, Sophie Mirabella.

“They know just how delusional Ms Gillard is when she says that manufacturers will “adapt” to the carbon tax. They all know Australian manufacturing margins are tight and that this tax will make life even harder for them.

“This week is National Manufacturing Week and Ms Gillard owes all Australian manufacturing businesses and their one million workers an apology. She is mindlessly pursuing a political fix at the expense of their jobs and the environment. Workers don’t want the consolation prize of compensation, they want to keep their jobs,” said Mrs Mirabella.