Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

They love it. Every local government throughout Australia loved it—the infrastructure project and the libraries. We have 2,000 libraries. What did the Howard government give the Australian public? He gave 2,000 flagpoles. We believe in education, knowledge and the future; they believe in symbolism. I love the flag and a flagpole but you have to have a better plan than just having flagpoles. We give language centres and classrooms to schools such as Gracefield State School, Kuraby State School, Eight Mile Plains State School, Southside Christian College—just to a name a few that I have been at in the last couple of weeks.

The Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill is a fantastic piece of legislation which goes a long way towards cutting the red tape. I commend the bill to the House.

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