Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

If those on the other side spend less time interjecting and more time thinking about regional communities, they might get somewhere. We have delivered three major free trade treatments and are opening up new markets for Australian exporters. Labor concluded no major trade deals, shut down our live export cattle trade with Indonesia and brought our northern beef industry to its knees. We are the ones standing up for small business, bringing in an effects test, but are the Labor party supporting it? No. They are supporting big business. Why do those on the other side hate regional Australia? We have brought in the sugar code, and Labor are opposing it and opposing certainty for the industry. On this side, the coalition will continue to deliver for regional Australia, unlike the city-centric, latte-sipping, polka-dot-sock-wearing senators on the other side, who ignore regional Australia. (Time expired)

Honourable senators interjecting —