Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have a very aggressive policy on grants. I constantly get criticised for the fact that O’Connor does very well out of it. But that is a great credit to the people in my electorate. We, as members of parliament, make sure that they know about it. I have to say to the member for Rankin—and I thank him for his accommodation moments ago—that sometimes members of his party tend to try to hide the initiatives of the Howard government, to the detriment of their own constituents. I never did that when in opposition. Every time I saw something pop up that I thought was beneficial to my electorate, I could not get my fingers into the till quick enough and my people were always informed—

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