Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, I am not going to comment on matters from a party room meeting. That would be completely inappropriate, so the question is completely irrelevant. But what I would say is that we are a government that is getting on with the job of doing things in this country. We want to get on with the job of doing things. We are the government of this country which is passing laws to ensure that the unions look after their members, not their own interests first. We are the government that has a plan to build infrastructure right through our country. We are the government that has a plan to develop the north of our country—the enormous opportunity that exists in Northern Australia, right across those three states.

I wish that some of my Queensland Senate colleagues would have offices based in the north and people based in the north. But we are proud that we are focused on the future of this country. We are focused on developing the opportunity that all Australians have, and that is what we are focused on—not what scuttlebutt is recorded in the media.