The NSW Transport Minister says local manufacturing will make it easier to hold businesses to account when something goes wrong.

Trams running on the second stage of the Parramatta Light Rail will be required to be built in Australia.

Transport Minister David Elliott has ordered bureaucrats to only consider Australian manufacturers.

He told Mark Levy it wasn’t a hard decision.

“I’m not going to be treated like a mug.

“I’m going to make sure if we’re sending taxpayers money … I want to make sure the taxpayers have right of reply if somebody doesn’t do the job properly.

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“The Minister has had enough of foreign products and so have we,” Ben said.

“We can’t keep on relying on foreign sources, let’s get back to Australian made!”

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