Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

It gives me great pleasure to take part in this MPI today as a regional member who is very privileged to stand here looking after regional Australians and as a proud member of the coalition and the National Party. We went to the last election with a clear message of jobs and growth, and do you know what we've done? We've delivered them. We have delivered jobs and growth—indeed, 400,000 jobs in the calendar year 2017. That far surpasses anything the Labor Party has come close to, but very proudly I can say that 100,000 of those jobs were created in rural and regional Australia. That is success. The Barnaby Joyce-Malcolm Turnbull government is successful when it comes to looking after regional Australia. That's why the eight million regional Australians predominantly vote for us: because they know what the fate of a Labor government is. They know full well that a Labor government looking after regional Australia will be stopping the live export trade and absolutely slaughtering the bush and those associated industries and businesses that were supported—you know what: you'll do it again when you get in. All your greenie mates, who you'll rush to support, like you will in Batman—

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