Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

'Bowen Basin' I just heard from the member for Wright. Indeed, he is right as always. Coal is Australia's second-largest export after iron ore. And, of course, we've got agriculture as well.

I often hear from those opposite, particularly the Treasurer, the member for Rankin, talking about the trillion dollars of Liberal Party debt that the government inherited when it took office in May 2022. That is not right; it was nowhere near a trillion dollars, and it wasn't just Liberal Party debt—indeed, the Nationals were very much in a coalition with the Liberal Party for those years of government, those successful years of government.

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