Mark Coulton (Parkes, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

Parliamentary Secretary, you go and speak to the people at Collarenebri, a most disadvantaged school—80 per cent Indigenous. When there was the $1.7 billion overspend, where did the money come from? Was it schools in your electorate? Was it schools in Parramatta? I will tell you where it came from. It came from Collarenebri, Mungindi, Gulargambone, Binnaway and Bingara. They have had all their money taken, so do not talk to me about good stimulus spending. Did any local contractors get work for the piddling amounts there were? No, they came from elsewhere. So my electorate has been completely dudded by this government. They will have generations to come paying the interest on this debt. I hope the apprentice from the Central Coast enjoys his three weeks of work, because when they have to pay back the debt he will be out of a job.

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