Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Regional Services) Share this | Hansard source

Because of our disciplined and strong economic management, we're delivering increased access to essential services which hardworking regional Australians expect, need and deserve. I'm asked about what impacts the financial recklessness of those opposite will have on regional Australia. We'll have less mobile phone coverage, affecting our small businesses, our health and education access and our emergency service operators. We know that our $550 million stronger rural health workforce strategy will be gone and under threat. We know that our crucial agricultural industries, where we will work with regional communities to take agriculture from a $64 billion industry to a nearly $100 billion industry by 2030, will be under threat. We've seen what they've said about the live sheep industry. We know our mining industry is under threat if they're elected, because Bill Shorten says one thing in Carlton and another thing in Capricornia and Rockhampton. We know our—