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

Sure. I don't disagree with the minister at the table, but it still is a truism that we are importing record numbers of people, and they are staying mainly on the eastern seaboard, where 85 per cent of Australians live. They are not taking up the offers of employment or accommodation in regional Australia. Regional Australia—which carried this nation, by the way, during COVID—

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