Duncan Kerr (Denison, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I acknowledged before that this speech would have to be interrupted, Madam Deputy Speaker. I just want to say that I will return to those larger issues about Australia’s responsibilities in the Pacific, but I thought it was important to also put the contribution the budget has made to my own electorate and to acknowledge that on the record because they are such important expenditures in the interests of the people of Hobart and they have failed to be properly acknowledged.

Debate interrupted.

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