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

I know it's hilarious to those opposite, but we find aged care serious. We make sure we provide for that in myriad forms.

In Gladstone, that great industrial city, with everything from coal to beef to grain to sodium cyanide to all the things found in that marvellous industrial city of in excess of 45,000 people that the Member for Flynn has stood beside—he's going to make sure that, after his decade in here, that city continues to grow for the decades into the future.

It's not just in the member for Flynn's seat but also as we go north to Hells Gate. Hells Gate is in the seat of the member for Kennedy, who's not here today. I was speaking to the member for Kennedy today—or, more to the point, he was speaking to me!—and we once more went over Hells Gate and how important that is for the development of our nation. The dam at Hells Gate, as has been rightly pointed out to me by the Prime Minister, has a business case that will arrive back here early next year, and this will be instrumental in not only the wealth of those downstream but in moving water west. That is vision. That's what you get from the Coalition. That's why the Australian people will be re-electing us.

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