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

I am here on behalf of the people of Townsville, I am here on behalf of the people of North Queensland and I am here on behalf of the people of rural and regional Australia. I am glad that the member for Dawson is with me because it is likely that both of us will move an amendment to the Nation Building Program (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill 2009, because this bill should be called ‘southern votes are more important than northern lives’.

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