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

I have to concur with the comments made by my colleague here in the Senate, Senator Cameron. The reality is we have a wonderful agricultural industry. We have fantastic capacity there, but we have communities leaving rural and regional Australia in droves because the representation that they thought they were going to get when they voted National-Liberal is not delivering anything that they need or expect. You cannot go out and farm by day and come back and watch your children unable to get to the doctor because you cannot afford it anymore because they have tried to put a $7 GP tax on, which we stopped. They had another go at adjusting the funding for local doctors, which we stopped, and then they had—

Senator Canavan interjecting—