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

That is why we've moved AgriFutures to Wagga Wagga. That is why we are putting the Regional Investment Corporation in Orange. That is why we are moving the APVMA to Armidale. That's why we are having the GRCD move to Toowoomba and northern and Western Australia. That's why we are moving some of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to Wodonga in Victoria. We believe in making sure that people have the opportunity to buy and pay off a house during their working life. That is why we are the government that believes in decentralisation.

I cannot understand why the Labor Party do not believe in decentralisation, why they do not have a policy on decentralisation and why they are offering nothing to the people who actually want to move. I've met so many people in Armidale and in Tamworth who have moved to these regional cities because they have a better standard of living, a better way of life, a better capacity to pay off their house. We on this side have a vision for our nation which grows beyond the crescent from Melbourne through to Adelaide—as good as that crescent is. We make sure that there's a greater purpose to our nation and that other places will grow. That's why we're building the Inland Rail. That's why we are standing by agriculture. You mentioned agriculture. We've had the biggest turn around in agricultural commodity prices in the history of our nation. We are proud of that, because we are the government that delivers.

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