Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources) Share this | Hansard source

We are delivering on jobs for the electorates of Flynn, Capricornia and Dawson. We are making sure that the people of the Riverina have jobs. We are making sure that they have jobs at Shepparton. We are making sure that they have jobs in Western Australia.

We are making sure that we are delivering for the future. The best way to deliver for the economic future, for jobs for ourselves, for our children and for our grandchildren is to make sure that we have the financial and economic management of our nation under control. People well remember that when we handed the keys of the Treasury over to the Labor Party after the Howard government the world owed Australia, the world owed us tens of billions of dollars. Yet when we got the Treasury back from the Labor-Green-independent chaos we owed the world hundreds of billions of dollars. So where is your future better secured? Where is your future better delivered? Where does the competence reside for a better future for jobs and for the prosperity of so many people in regional Australia? It is quite clear: competence of good government resides with a strong coalition.

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