Darren Chester (Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There's only one thing that regional Australians fear more than the second term of the Albanese-Marles government and that would be the first term of an Albanese-Bandt government backed by their friends in the teals. Representing some of the most privileged seats in Australia, the teals have become the Greens with trust funds, and they are waging war on our regional jobs every day. When they're not tearing down Liberal Party campaign signs, the teals are tearing down the jobs of regional people.

A minority Labor government dictated to by the inner-city Greens and the teals is the greatest fear of regional Australians today because they've already had a taste of what it looks like throughout Australia. In Western Australia, it was the banning of live sheep exports because Labor buckled to the demands of the Greens and the inner-city lefties in their own party. In Victoria, the modern Labor Party has consistently sold out blue-collar workers in the timber industry and the energy sector just for Greens preferences. Old Labor warriors would not recognise those timid souls opposite who keep buckling to the Greens. An Albanese-Bandt-teal government is a recipe for disaster in regional Australia. We need to get Australia back on track.