Pat Conroy (Shortland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure) Share this | Hansard source

Even better—I welcome you—come up on the second Sunday in September to the miners memorial to see the bronze wall commemorating the 1,800 coalminers who have died in my community to ship out coal and produce wealth for this country. But they won't, because they don't have the ticker. They don't care about coalminers other than to use them as cheap political props for their tricks. Shame on you! Shame on the entire coalition for their lack of support for real coalminers!

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