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

On this side we do understand it, unlike the potentially three out of 26 senators on the other side who have any connection at all to regional Australia. That side brought in a carbon tax, which hurt regional Australia harder than anywhere else. They banned the live export trade, which, as my colleague Senator O'Sullivan was so eloquently talking about this morning, decimated parts of Australia. There was not one single dollar for mobile phone black spots. How many dollars? Zero. They put a second satellite up for Sky Muster. They were actually just going to let it bob around up there as backup. We were the ones who utilised it to increase the data for the community. When in government, those on the other side decimated the department of agriculture, cutting their funding by half. Those on the other side should stop whingeing, start thinking and get on board with the coalition.