Kristina Keneally wants to halt migration program, page-98

the gutting of our manufacturing started with John Button. All Howard did was to see the shift that Hawke and Keating had created with tradespeople and then courted them. he didn't create them. And the tradespeople have mostly stayed LNP ever since. 10's of thousands of workers all across Australia had already ditched the unions and the ALP long before Howard became PM in 1996