Mark Coulton (Parkes, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Inland rail is going to boost the economy of the entire country, but particularly of regional Australia.

Regional Australia is a land of opportunity. One thing that I know unites the people of regional Australia is they're absolutely terrified of this group sitting opposite. They can remember the shemozzle that was the government when those opposite were in. They can remember the raiding of the money that was set aside for telecommunications infrastructure and changing—

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