James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party) | Hansard source

Mind you, they are bad—I'm going a bit off piste here at the moment, Senator Patrick—but one of the Victorian state Labor ministers today said they won't be building any dams. I don't know who this minister is, but they're clearly an idiot, and I've said so on my social media. We are in the midst of a devastating drought, and Labor's approach to this is to put their head not in a bucket of water but in a bucket of very dry sand and not deal with the reality of the situation.

Back to my state Labor government and the failure of leadership that they are showing for the construction and building sector: Senator Scarr, being someone who spends a lot of time travelling around rural and regional Queensland, will understand that the lack of leadership in this sector is hurting jobs in Queensland. We have, I think, the highest unemployment rate in the country.