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

When it comes to government advertising, this is important so that we can get out there and inform people who are going to be impacted by the Inland Rail about their options. It is nation-building infrastructure. We can go down the Labor way: we can be in a banana republic and build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything. That was their philosophy. When it comes to government advertising, those opposite had six years in government and, in that time, they were the champions of wasting money—and the book that I am holding proves it. Remember this little book?

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