George Christensen (Dawson, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Hunter, the shadow agriculture minister, really should be more interested in assisting regional Australia than coming in here and trying to attack someone who's a strong fighter for her part of regional Australia—the member for Capricornia. He can do something today because he's meeting with sugar cane farmers who are representing my electorate and also the member for Capricornia's electorate. The backbone of regional Australia in our area are calling for one simple thing: for Labor senators not to dismantle the sugar code of conduct. The member for Herbert, who's here today, should be in on this too because QSL port workers' jobs are also at stake in this. They work in her electorate and live in her electorate. This is very important to regional Australia, and I would call on them to instruct their senators—

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