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

The thing about the Regional Partnerships program that is incredibly important in places like Tumbi Creek and Gunnedah and Rockingham in Western Australia and other regional areas right around Australia is that the Australian Labor Party have said that the program is a rort and that this sort of support to regional Australia should be closed down. The people who live around Tumbi Creek know very well that there are two approaches to supporting regional communities in Australia. There is the Labor approach, which is to stop the appropriation of funds to well-deserving regional programs right across the landscape, and there is the Liberal Party and National Party approach, which is to assist them.