Chris Hayes (Werriwa, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Sign or sack, that is precisely the case. If you can do that, with a view to driving wages and conditions down, what choices do the people who live in regional and rural Australia have? I would like the minister and the government to give some indication—particularly when, as I understand it, they still have a few Nationals supporting their position on this; I would like to see them stand up and be counted—of the financial impact this will have on economies in regional and rural Australia.

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