Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

If that was not an effort to shut down, it looked an awful lot like it. In a way that exactly shows the contempt for the community that was expressed to me. They think: the Riverina, it is always on our side; we can count on those folks; it does not matter how much money we cut out of that community; we can take it away, and we could take it away from every council on the ground, and they are too dumb to even figure out that they have been cut. I have seen some of press releases that go out into the area, out in the seat of Farrer and out in the seat of Riverina. They try to pull the wool over people's eyes, but under this government they know that they are getting a dud deal that is ripping money right out of their community—

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