Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

As to the Building Better Regions Fund, in the last round there were $1.7 billion worth of requests, which shows that this is an incredibly well responded to grant system. Within that system, we had over 1,000 applications in the last round.

There are so many areas in regional Australia. I acknowledge the member for Eden-Monaro's question, where she talked about a certain grant. Unfortunately, within the envelope that we have, we were unable to help on that issue. But what we can say quite clearly is that, in the last round, in further discussions within the Expenditure Review Committee of the coalition, we extended a further $100 million—that's a $300 million package—because we look towards those corners of our nation which we can help—

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