Mark Coulton (Parkes, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Shortland for his contribution. In actual fact, he has just been a warm-up act for a National Party minister and, with a bit more practice, he might get there. I was going to comment that I feel that the member for Shortland should spend a little bit more time in his electorate and a bit less time in front of the TV.

One of the advantages of being around here for a while is that you have a memory. I sat here through the entire time when the member for Grayndler was infrastructure minister, and I saw other ministers in that era that were responsible for government expenditure.

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