Tuesday, 6 February 2024

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:59): (624) My question today is to Minister Carroll in relation to his industry and innovation portfolio. In Bayswater, in our electorate in the north-east, Rosebank Engineering are producing something called uplock actuators, which are used in the operation of the weapons bay doors in F-35 jets that are currently being supplied to Israel. These parts, produced right here in our electorate in Victoria, are crucial to enabling these fighter jets to release bombs on Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Minister, has this business in particular received any state government funding, grants or business support? I think our constituents deserve to know if their taxpayer dollars are being used or are contributing to an act of genocide.