Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

That is, Senator McKenzie, if they do not go back to their inner-city apartments and never go to the regions! They go to their inner-city apartments in Melbourne and pretend that they are out there, shooting grouse at the weekend with a gun cocked over their shoulders! They are never in the regions! What a joke that is!

Anyway, I take the view, and Labor takes the view, that it is absolutely important that young families get a fair go in this country. That means that we have to stand up for the regions and we have to stand up for rural Australia, something that the Liberal-National Party, or the National Party—whatever they call themselves—are incapable of doing. All they want to do is protect those who give electoral funds to the Liberal and National parties.

This is the problem we have with them: they do not understand. How could the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, ever understand what it is like for a worker to battle? How could he ever understand, in his $50 million mansion overlooking Sydney Harbour? What a joke it is—$50 million! He does not know what it is like to try to buy a house in Parramatta, and he would not care. All he is interested in is his future and no-one else's.