Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

In Gunnedah, just last week, I was among tens of thousands of Australians who were in town to attend the AgQuip Field Days. Rain was no impediment or deterrent; there were tens of thousands there. It's always great to attend such a gathering place for the community and to speak to people about our Labor government, politics and the policies we are implementing—what we're doing to help people to earn more and keep more of what they earn, to get into their first home and to be more confident that their kids are going to get the fully funded education they always deserved but were denied by those opposite.

And then there were conversations about our efforts to reduce the HECS debt for hundreds of thousands of Australians. In the electorate of Parkes, there were 13,481 lives transformed by what this parliament did in the last sitting period, delivering on commitments made by the Labor Party. In New England, 14,951 people have been the beneficiaries of that HECS debt cut. Labor is looking after the regions of Australia.