Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (15:38): I am so glad the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories, the member for Eden-Monaro, has raised Rex Airlines, because there is a petition that's been distributed within the Riverina and Farrer electorates to save Rex and protect regional Australia from the Liberals and Nationals. Please don't go, Minister. Please stay and listen to this, because— Mr Dreyfus: I'm staying. Mr McCORMACK: Thank you, Member for Isaacs and Attorney-General. It says: 'By signing I support Labor's efforts to keep Rex flying.' Okay. It's a petition and so you'd say: 'Well, that's fair enough. They want to get people to support the government's initiative to keep Rex flying.' You have no bigger supporter of Rex than right here speaking right into these microphones. I am a supporter of Rex and I urgently encourage people who have a flight to take, if they have the option, to please fly Rex, because we won't know how valuable it is until we lose it. Let me tell you, if we lose it, the prices are going to go up and up. For communities such as Ceduna, Parkes and Narrandera, those towns which only have Rex flying into them, it is a matter of life and death. They won't get Rex to fly in to make their vital medical appointments, for tourism, for business, for all the rest of the appointments and for the business activity that they need. Getting back on to Labor's petition, I really need the Labor members to listen to this. Question 1: 'What is your first name?' Fair enough. Question 2: 'What is your last name?' Question 3: 'What is your email address?' Question 4: 'What is your mobile number?' Question 5: 'What is your house address?' So they're the first five questions. Then we get on to question 6: 'Do you have any other issues the federal government can help you with?' I'm thinking, 'Okay,' but wait for this one. Question seven: 'Do you wish to be contacted about volunteering opportunities for the upcoming federal election?' Under it, they've got a Rex logo and then a Labor logo. That is disrespectful to Rex. That is disrespectful to regional Australia. That's what it's worth. You know what? If people sign that petition, they're going to get Labor paraphernalia and they're going to get bombarded with Labor material: 'How to vote for Labor.' Mr Dreyfus: Real information. Mr McCORMACK: No, not real information, Member for Isaacs—not at all. It is information that is going to only allow them to get a Labor government, which has been very, very bad for the regions—a Labor government which offers you 70c a day of tax cuts in 15 months time. What's that going to give you? It won't get you Regional Express, let me tell you. Then we've got the Labor candidates running around Riverina and Farrer, and what are they doing? They're also getting people to sign a petition which has been put forward by the Nationals member for Cootamundra in the state parliament to absolutely condemn the state Labor government about cuts to regional and rural health services, including ambulance services and including centralising pathology services in Cootamundra Hospital—putting them in Young. We've got the Labor candidates running around condemning state Labor. This is just perverse and so is that petition that Labor is circulating around Rex. This comes from the federal Labor government, which we know in the budget put 'nfp'—'not for publication'—beside 'Murray-Darling Basin' because they don't want people to know how many water buybacks they are going to do. This is from the Labor government which took away the distribution priority areas, which forced doctors, which caused doctors, to leave rural and remote Australia and to go to the outer suburbs of Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Gold Coast or wherever else. We now have fewer doctors, and that is a truism. The best thing that any parliament, any government, has done for the doctors is the Murray-Darling rural medical network. I put that in place, and you can see the benefits already at Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Mildura, Bendigo and Orange. We're making sure that we've got young doctors training from start to finish and doing their course, because we know that, if we train them in the bush, chances are they'll fall in love with somebody in the bush, they'll fall in love with the bush and they'll stay in the bush. That's what it's all about. It's not about Labor taking away the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program and all those other regional grant programs. That is on your watch. That is on your heads. At the next election, the only way to get Australia back on track is to vote Nationals, to vote coalition.