Sarah Henderson (Corangamite, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, it is my great pleasure to speak on this MPI and, in doing so, I make reference to the people's choice, the member for Grayndler. I am quite fond of the member for Grayndler but, unfortunately, in the six years that he was the infrastructure minister in a Labor government, he started off his time saying no to Avalon Airport. Avalon Airport is one of the wonderful regional infrastructure precincts in our country and in our region. When AirAsia X wanted to fly internationally between Asia and Geelong, opening up an international airport, Labor said no. And that is well on the record—

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