Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

Our rail manufacturing plan is a plan to build more trains here, to have more jobs in our regions, like Maryborough, and in Ballarat—in my own home town. We know that the fund will help transform that manufacturing, to build more rail jobs. Four thousand jobs are already in rail, and we've seen good Labor state governments invest in it, and this is what this fund will help to do.

The truth is, of those opposite, that, when it comes to regional Australia and regional jobs, they've buried their heads in the sand for the last decade and failed to support regional jobs. We know, on this side of the House, just how important regional manufacturing is for long-term jobs. I cannot believe that a regional member of this place would be voting against this fund.

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