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

We will make sure that we talk about and are very protective of the jobs that we in regional Australia have now. We are not going to go to the people of regional Australia and tell them that, for the sake of the zeitgeist of the Labor Party, we will put them out of a job. We are making sure that we protect the jobs now. If the leader of the Labor Party, the member for Grayndler, wants to stand by those mining jobs, wants to stand by coalmining, let him come to the dispatch box right now and say so.

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