Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

$4.3 billion in investments in the 2011-12 budget to drive improvements in regional hospitals and to help education facilities and community and transport infrastructure. That is what this government is doing. When those on the other side were in government they neglected it. Why? Because the Nationals kept getting rolled by the Liberal Party—and they were happy to be rolled. The Nationals are now bringing forward their own policies, but they will again get rolled by the Liberals. (Time expired)