Sharon Grierson (Newcastle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Are you saying that the member for Paterson would love one? That is probably so. He does support nuclear energy—he is on the record as saying so—as long as it is not in his backyard. There are big national issues that the Howard government needs to start attending to before the rot continues further, particularly in foreign affairs and certainly in some of our social domestic policies and energy and water debates. It needs to look at how its policies of neglect have affected our local communities, but, after 10 years, it appears that it is too arrogant to even try.

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