Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

And I agree with the member opposite: I shook my head too. I thought: they could not have been that bad. But the local paper for Griffith—one of the primary agricultural areas for this country, the food bowl of the nation—told me they ran a 5½-year campaign trying to get the previous minister to visit Griffith. Which previous minister would that be? You might be able to work it out when you look at the front page they ran on the Area News: ‘Where’s Warren?’ Work it out for yourselves—and they have got him dressed up just like the Where’s Wally character with a photo of the people of Griffith. The difference of course is that, if you get a Where’s Wally book and you look hard enough—and it can take days—eventually you can find him. For 5½ years the people of Griffith went looking and they never found the member for Wide Bay. They never found the Leader of the Nationals; not one appearance, not once.

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