Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) | Hansard source

E KING () (): I thank the Deputy Prime Minister for the ministerial statement. Normally these ministerial statements don't contain a lot of politics, but I recognise we're on the eve of an election so there might be some observations I'd like to make.

If you want to see the difference in the diversity of our regions and what their representation is, just look at how few women there are representing regional Australia on that side of the House, compared to this side of the House. The diversity of our regions—

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