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

I thank the honourable member for her question and concur that the Nationals do concern ourselves with regional Australia. That's what we do and that's why we're here. We as a party are exclusively from regional areas and so of course we're going to be mindful of making sure that we understand the role of this parliament and how lives in regional areas are affected. That is our job. I think people would think a lot less of us if we weren't diligent about the facts, if we didn't take a real sense of prudence to how we have oversight of discussions that could have huge ramifications for regional areas, especially by 2050.

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