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

I hear the member for Lyons rudely interrupting and interjecting, but he knows as a regional member that we rolled out phone towers not just to Labor seats. We also built roads in his electorate in Tasmania. We built roads. We built a dam. I know. There was a Dam started and finished—Scottsdale dam—in Tasmania under my time as Deputy Prime Minister. And I'll tell you what: the irrigation farmers in Tasmania were thrilled when it was completed. They were absolutely delighted. But will we see dam building under this Labor government?

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