Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for the question. On 2 June, the Deputy Prime Minister issued what would have to be probably the most comprehensive statement ever issued about the impact of the budget on regional communities. It is a commendable document, and I commend it for that reason. It is comprehensive, and the Minister for Regional Development, the Deputy Prime Minister, and the deputy minister, put out a document that summarised right across the board the impacts of our decisions in the budget on regional Australia. In fact on budget night we put out a number of documents which mainstreamed the impact of budget decisions on regional Australia—for example, this wonderful infrastructure document. You were lauding it the other day actually, Prime Minister.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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