Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

When is the member for Calwell going to start standing up for workers? When is the member for Shortland going to stand up for workers? We are fighting for the Adani mine because we believe that men and women deserve a job—even if it is manual work, we believe that they deserve a job. We believe in the prosperity of Central Queensland. We are going to fight for these workers because we know that you are not. You do not have the ticker. The member for Maribyrnong does not have the ticker, as a former leader of the AWU, to stand up for workers—he has given up on them. He has left them; he has evolved. Policy is being delivered by the member for Sydney—and she is looking after the inner suburbs—but they have forgotten about those in Central Queensland. We will pick them back up.

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