Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Member for Shortland, together we have to rail against that, because we cannot have our communities in the north not protected and not served by the very professional people of the bureau. They provide an on-the-spot professional service. They are able to advise the local media in real time as to what is happening and what is expected to happen. I am advised from a Senate estimates committee that the first bureau to go, if it is to go, will probably be Rockhampton. We have to fight against that. We cannot allow that to happen. We cannot allow the Rudd government to shaft the north, because that is what this is about. The radio crosses are so important because—

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