Mark Coulton (Parkes, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister championed this project back when he was a minister in the Gillard-Rudd government. At the moment there, there's no-one. Neither Minister King nor the Prime Minister have been to that area to explain anything to those communities, farmers and businesses that are having to sell their equipment to make ends meet.

Prime Minister, don't send another gormless senator to go to those towns and patronise those people about what's going on. Hop on the jet—there are plenty of places to land at Narromine, Narrabri and Moree—and talk to the people and explain to them what's happened with this project.

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