Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Angus and Michelle have owned Hill and Crofts since 2001. The store has four employees—not large, in the scheme of things, but four workers. They're getting on with making sure that those people have a future and those people have prosperity. And that little business has a turnover of $4½ million. They're punching well above their weight. They are serving the public in the agriculture space. They are certainly serving them in the residential real estate space in Blayney. And they're people who will be targeted if Labor's negative gearing policies ever become law. So that's right—Labor just wants to take the property tax whack out. They want to make sure that people don't have the sort of money in their investments that they should have because they've worked hard and they've invested in real estate. They should be able to get ahead.

We've also put $1.8 billion into drought relief measures and, in the member for Calare's electorate, they will help, for those councils getting the million dollars—they're going to help the Blayney, Cabonne, Mid-Western Regional, Oberon and Dubbo Regional councils, which are good councils, getting on with the job of making sure that their communities are well served, bringing local infrastructure works forward and getting money flowing into drought-affected communities.

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