Tony Pasin (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I don't know how I follow the member for Flynn. I've certainly never played cricket against Doug Walters and can't speak to his flowing craft. Regional Australia faces a number of challenges, and I speak now of the pre-COVID-19 world. Obviously, like all of Australia, indeed the globe, we face significant other challenges, but I just want to speak to the report of the inquiry into migration in regional Australia, which was chaired by my good friend the member for Berowra. I wasn't a member of that committee, but I took a fairly keen interest.

Mr Fitzgibbon interjecting—

The member for Hunter might want to be nice because I'm being particularly nice to him today, only because he's taken a very pro-coal position lately, which I think is a good thing. If only he could convince some of his colleagues in the Labor Party, they might stand a chance of winning the next election.

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