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

I hear 'hear hear' from the member for Moreton, and I acknowledge that, but we can't have unions running the show—we cannot. We can't have Labor coming in here and the only business they talk about are those businesses which they run picket lines out the front of. Jobs and skills are important. They are certainly most important in regional Australia, which carried this nation through COVID.

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