Marion Scrymgour (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I enjoyed listening to the member for Dawson. I just think that the hypocrisy that I hear sometimes is simply unbearable. They want to run around proclaiming to stand up for regional and remote Australia when they are far more interested in the walls of their party room. The member for Page—and I'm glad he's come back—should know that his electorate wouldn't take up one local government area in the bush of Lingiari. The Barkly Regional Council could fit 10 areas the size of the member for Page's area inside it.

I know regional Australia and I know they have a government that is working hard to address the cost of living. The Nationals don't care about the bush, and they should just be honest about it. I was in the Northern Territory government when John Howard, as the Prime Minister, launched a savage attack on remote Australians under the Northern Territory intervention. I've watched the circus roll in and roll out, and I've watched the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison government alongside their mates Joyce, McCormack, Joyce and Littleproud systematically underinvest—or should I say their electorates—

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