Jim Turnour (Leichhardt, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

She was. There is no doubt that the way that she dealt with those programs and supported projects that had not gone through proper processes was a disgrace. That is part of the reason that we have members like the member for Dawson, me as the member for Leichhardt and the member for Flynn here in this chamber today representing rural and regional Australia. We have members of the Labor Party all across this country.

If we look at what is left of the National Party, we see that they have nine out of 63 seats from rural and regional Australia. That is all they represent. Do members know how many the Labor Party represents? It represents 29 out of 63 seats—almost 50 per cent. So I do not really like being lectured by the member for Mitchell, who is from Sydney, about representation of rural and regional Australia when he is not even from rural and regional Australia—and the leader of the National Party could not even find somebody to actually follow him up. We have the member for Grey and the member for Forrest sitting next to him who did not even make contributions, and they represent rural and regional Australia. What rural and regional Australia want is a government that is going to deliver on its election commitments.

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