Simon Crean (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Kingston. I know what a champion she is not just for regional Australia but for her own community, and the initiatives we have put in there—the new library, the trade training centre—and the way the National Broadband Network is working for her is testament to that work. Hers is a region where, every time you go to it, it contrasts the negativity that you get in this House from that side of the chamber. Everywhere you go in the region you have people that are positive about the future—challenged by it, yes, but they see opportunity in it and they are not buying the fear campaign. In her home state this cannot be told better than by the city of Whyalla.

Mr Tony Smith interjecting—

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