QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator TYRRELL (Tasmania—Independent TAS Whip) (15:15): The federal government has already intervened in other industrial closures on the mainland, including South Australia's Whyalla steelworks, Queensland's Mount Isa copper smelter and New South Wales's Tomago aluminium smelter. Do you treat Tasmanian metal manufacturers—oh lord, oh lord, oh lord!—differently to mainland smelters? Yes, it's long!