House debates Bills
Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2012-2013; Consideration in Detail
Simon Crean Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government
12:00 pm
I think it is absolutely essential that these funding initiatives are based on a needs basis and on proposals that stack up. We had to end that dreadful regional rorts program that the Howard government presided over: it funded the draining of the Tumby Creek, and it drained itself; it funded a cheese factory that was on the nose and went bust—
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