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

our efforts through the budget, are going to back regional Australia all the way. I was very proud this afternoon to launch the Regional Activators Alliance—talking up regional Australia. Plenty of those opposite are very pessimistic about the future. They talk down regional Australia. They talk down our nation in general. But we are there. We are supporting regional Australia through the budget. We are supporting infrastructure investment—our $110-billion pipeline of investment to support electorates such as Flynn, to support port such as Gladstone and the city in general, to support jobs. That's what we're about—supporting regional jobs, supporting regional communities and getting on with it.

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