Michael Hatton (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Airports Amendment Bill 2006 is an important bill. This is the first time that we have had major changes to the Airports Act 1996, which was a Labor government act. It is an important bill because it makes some significant changes to the operation of that act. But in some ways it just does not go far enough. Since 1996, we have suffered—you might not have, Mr Deputy Speaker Barresi, but I have and everybody on the Labor side has—11 years of government by the coalition.

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