House debates
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Matters of Public Importance
Budget: Rural and Regional Areas
3:30 pm
Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source
Yes—to assist in basically doing one of his watering points. So the money is going out. But when they say, 'You don't have a vision for regional Australia,' well, what's $300 million on the inland rail? What is that—a block of flats? That is real vision because that creates a corridor of commerce from south-east Queensland through to Melbourne, a corridor of commerce that actually advances the interests of people, especially in the seat of Parkes—
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