Richard Marles (Corio, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The interesting thing here is that the two ministers of the Howard government who were responsible for this portfolio were both leaders of the National Party and both up to their necks in the Regional Partnerships program when in fact they should have been running this country and connecting us to a modern aviation system. Instead, the member for Lyne was out there bitterly attacking the Auditor-General for raising, quite legitimately, concerns that he had about the Regional Partnerships program. We know those comments very well, as they were reported in the Australian on 17 May last year. It said—

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