Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Services, Territories and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

Every Australian deserves a roof over their head, but no Australian deserves the member for Bowman as their local representative! With all the problems going on in their party room over the last week, with all the problems on display, you'd have thought they'd have a lot more to do when they came into this place than complain about what is happening in another tier of government. The people of Queensland have already voted on their state representative. The message for the member for Bowman and all of those other regional Queensland representatives is: look to your own backyard. You've got plenty of problems with broadband and the National Broadband Network. You've got plenty of problems with housing affordability but not a policy to bless yourselves with. You've got plenty of problems when it comes to the delivery of healthcare services but not a policy or an initiative to bless yourselves with. So instead of coming into this place, day after day, and puffing yourselves up and blaming another tier of government for your own electoral failures and your own policy failures, look to your own backyard and your own party rooms—because you've got much bigger problems to deal with on your side than trying to fix the problems of another tier of government.

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