Luke Simpkins (Cowan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I welcome the opportunity to comment and to also support regional Australia. I thank the member for Page for bringing this motion before the House. It might be 30 years since I was in Grafton. My mother’s family comes from further south, in the New England district of New South Wales. I have many fond childhood memories of visiting and staying for holidays in that part of the world. Indeed, it was the sport of rowing that took me to Grafton 30 years ago—

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