Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'd like to inform the House of what a great program the Mobile Black Spot Program is and how it's a clear delineation between what has been delivered by our government and what was not given and not delivered by the previous Labor-Green-Independents government. I'd like to talk about how we have mobile phone towers that have been put in at Balala; Bonshaw; Drake; Dungowan; Hillgrove; Kings Plains; Rocky Creek; Urbenville, which they're stating now; Walcha Road, my old haunt; Woolomin, just below the dam we did up; Attunga, just up the road, where I used to go to do junior sports; Barraba; Bruxner Highway at Sandy Hills west of Drake, even though Drake still doesn't vote for me; Duri; Elsmore; Fossickers Way; Hallsville; Invergowrie; Manilla; Moonbi; Mount Carrington; Oxley Vale; Piallamore; Tamworth, whose team, the Tamworth Pirates, played Walcha Rams in the grand final on the weekend and beat them, unfortunately—Walcha being a town of 2,500 people and Tamworth having 67,000; Westdale; Fig Tree Hill near Copeton Dam; Copeton Dam; Kingstown; Baldersleigh; Koreelah, up on a hill—it was great to go up and see that way up in the north of the electorate; Pinkett, just south of Glen Innes, where we've got over a billion dollars of renewable energy; Mount Hourigan at Aberfoyle, east of Guyra, and Doughboy Mountain, which is right out in the sticks. This is all part of the delivery of a coalition government. This is what was asked for, and this is what we're actually delivering, right next to the bridges that we're doing up and next to the decentralisation of government jobs into Armidale. This is what a government is about.

Finally, I'd like to commend the great work of the Tamworth Pirates and give commiserations to the Walcha Rams.