Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

And then we hear—come in, spinner—'by 2025'. But I doubt that, and I will keep you to that. By 2025 it'll be 2028. Then it'll be 2031. You won't achieve it, Labor—you just won't. The reason you won't is your policies aren't inclined to do that. They're not properly thought out. They're not properly planned.

I know that we heard the member for Ballarat, the infrastructure minister—I've got the greatest respect for her—talking in question time about the fact that they were finally ending the political fights with states and territories. I didn't have political fights with states and territories. I got on with the job with states and territories—indeed, most of them were Labor—to make sure that we put in place a national logistics freight code so we could get goods transported around during the pandemic. That happened within hours—not days or weeks or months—because I did have the relationship with those state Labor ministers. I'm proud of the fact that I got on and built things with state Labor ministers. I wait to see if those opposite do the same in their term of office.

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