Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Those on the other side apparently do not understand rural Australia. And those on the coalition backbench—those marginal seat holders who represent rural seats—should be in here defending their constituents. They should be in here on the budget debate, defending their rural constituents. Yet we learn every day that they are missing in action. They are compliant with their leader and it is time they stood up for their constituents. It is time they stood up for rural and regional Australia.

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