Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Balaklava in my electorate has a population just a bit under 2,000. It is about 92 kilometres or so from Adelaide. Traditionally wheat and wool territory, since about the 1850s it has been a grain production area. It has farmers, hardworking people and plain-speaking people.

Mr Danby interjecting—

The member for Melbourne Ports tells me that a relative of his came from there. It is a traditionally conservative part of the world. The Plains Producer, a great local country paper, a great voice for rural journalism, opposes the government's advertising cuts for rural papers. Oddly enough, the government could spend all of this money on advertising, just not in rural South Australia or rural Australia! This week, the paper had a headline about the Prime Minister's visit, as you can see.

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