Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for McMahon for his question and note that it is a statement of fact that houses in regional areas such as Tamworth, Armidale, Wagga and Orange are, invariably, on the whole, cheaper than they are in Sydney or Brisbane or Melbourne, and we should be doing everything in our power to encourage decentralisation.

Mr Watts interjecting—

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