House debates Statements by Members
Turnbull Government
Nick Champion Wakefield, Australian Labor Party
1:52 pm
Balaklava in my electorate has a population just a bit under 2,000. It is about 92 kilometres or so from Adelaide. Traditionally wheat and wool territory, since about the 1850s it has been a grain production area. It has farmers, hardworking people and plain-speaking people.
Mr Danby interjecting—
The member for Melbourne Ports tells me that a relative of his came from there. It is a traditionally conservative part of the world. The Plains Producer, a great local country paper, a great voice for rural journalism, opposes the government's advertising cuts for rural papers. Oddly enough, the government could spend all of this money on advertising, just not in rural South Australia or rural Australia! This week, the paper had a headline about the Prime Minister's visit, as you can see.
Nick Champion Wakefield, Australian Labor Party
It is entitled 'Tiring of Turnbull'.
Bruce Scott Deputy-Speaker
Order, Member for Wakefield! That is disorderly.
Nick Champion Wakefield, Australian Labor Party
You can see that the 'bull' part is in red.
Bruce Scott Deputy-Speaker
The member for Wakefield will desist from using a prop.
Nick Champion Wakefield, Australian Labor Party
That is because farmers—like steelworkers, auto workers and shipbuilders—know bulldust when they see it. The Prime Minister's visit to South Australia, coming on the back of today's 7.7 per cent unemployment rate, adds insult to injury. There has not been one significant announcement about and not one commitment to South Australia. (Time expired)