Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience) Share this | Hansard source

Unfortunately, I can identify a risk. It is the risk of electing Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party, who, hand in hand with Adam Bandt and his Green eco-warriors, will choose to decimate not only our agriculture and our mining industries but also the ultimate renewable industry: the great Australian forest industry. The timber workers and timber processing workers right across this country have much to fear from the election of the Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese, as well as Larissa Waters, Nick McKim, Adam Bandt and all their mates—the Greens policies that will be adopted as a result of their coalition government.

When you talk to the millions of people who live in rural and regional Australia, they say that the greatest risk to the economic recovery to the regions and indeed to the nation is that side of politics, which has no respect for the regions or the industries that underpin our economies. (Time expired)