Simon Crean (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

In the Mackay Daily Mercury published on Friday, the Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Regional Services, Mrs De-Anne Kelly—if she is reported correctly—accused me of being a hypocrite in relation to our assertion that the government had failed to fund the aquatic centre in Mackay in accordance with the Regional Partnerships program. She made that assertion on the basis that Labor, if it were elected, would abolish that program.

Labor will not abolish the Regional Partnerships program. Our commitment is to ensure—

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