Ian Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I am deeply appreciative of that reminder. The question was about Regional Partnerships and Tumbi Creek and accountability of that process. I am addressing the question but I am getting constant interjections from a Labor Party senator opposite who is deeply opposed to a coalition government giving financial resources to communities like Tumbi Creek to solve systemic problems within their communities. He is opposed to supporting communities like Gunnedah to get an ethanol plant going there and communities like Rockingham to build a marina facility. Why do these communities come to the federal government looking for this support? It is because the Australian Labor Party systematically ignores regional Australia. It comes up with a series of policies that ignore anyone who lives outside the cappuccino strip or the chardonnay belt of inner Sydney or inner Melbourne.