Darren Chester (Gippsland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I've woken a few of them up! Are you going to defend the cuts to the Building Better Regions Fund? Are you going to defend the cuts to Roads of Strategic Importance? What about defending the regional airports funding cuts?

Government members interjecting—

I can't hear you. You're so far back I can't hear you! It's hypocritical of these Labor ministers, who spent the entire first term coming into this place and complaining about the coalition government. They talked about a wasted decade, as they liked to say. But then they leave this place, they race out to their electorates, and what do they do, Member for Riverina? They cut the ribbons, they open the plaques, they get their names in the paper.

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