Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources) Share this | Hansard source

I know the Labor Party is not very interested in jobs, but at Thomas Foods at Tamworth we have further jobs, with the expansion—200 new jobs at Tamworth. This is vitally important. To the north of the area, in Toowoomba, with the new airport that has been put in by the Wagner brothers, we see that we have further facilitated the growth of jobs in that area, especially in the horticultural industry. It is quite apparent that our belief in making sure that we get new jobs is based on our knowledge of the areas. I was also very pleased to see that the Labor Party—

Opposition members interjecting—

It is good to see you are referring to your old colleague. The Labor Party, too, has had a survey to see if they are interested in jobs. They had the candidates for Page and Richmond. How did they spell Page? P-a-i-g-e. Paige and Richmond—it sounds like a wonderful young couple down at the surf club. They cannot even get the name of the seat right. This is how ridiculous it is. They put it on a forum, and who was the grand light at that forum? It was you! It was Bill Shorten. I wish to table the community town hall forum at a seat we have never even heard about: the seat of Paige!

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