Mr LITTLEPROUD (Maranoa—Leader of the Nationals) (15:51): Again yesterday we heard this government and the Prime Minister reiterate what he said when he was first elected: no-one held back, no-one left behind. Well, that's unless you live in regional Australia, because, since the Albanese government came into power in 2022, we have seen over $30 billion worth of infrastructure ripped out of regional Australia. That's roads, that's rail, that's dams. That's about the tools regional Australia needs in order to give this country over $350 billion worth of exports. This government has callously just said to regional Australia that there are two classes of Australians: there's one that lives in a capital city and there are those of us who live outside a capital city, who can do without. That is not a government that is governing for all. That's a government that went to the last election and did not even promise one cent in new programs, for programs that they have cut—did not say they would reintroduce or refund any of them. They went to regional Australia at this election and said, 'You get nothing.' That is the contempt that this government has held for regional Australians—the fact that we are contributing to this country's wealth yet having the tools taken away from us by a government that is looking for political expediency in capital cities, worried about fighting the Greens and winning seats off the Greens and not thinking about those who are generating the wealth of this country. That shows absolute contempt—and a Western Australian sits here and doesn't even have the courage to stand up for her fellow Western Australians, cannot even explain the science or economics of why they have called out and destroyed live sheep exports out of Western Australia. Where is the courage of the Western Australians? They have gone missing in their moment of truth, when they condescendingly sit here and talk about what's important in this country. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): I'm taking a point of order. Ms Madeleine King: The member is not addressing the matter of public importance. Mr Littleproud interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I think it's my job to make the ruling now, but I will come back to the member for Maranoa, don't worry. I am listening carefully. You are reminded: the topic, which you have chosen, is the government's failure to manage the nation's challenges and priorities, and I'm listening to that. Mr LITTLEPROUD: It's gobsmacking that a Western Australian would do a point of order— Opposition members interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member for Maranoa now has the call. We don't need all of you to chime in right now. I think we're very clear that he has the call and can move on. Mr LITTLEPROUD: That a Western Australian would say that the phasing out of live sheep exports out of the state she represents is not a failure to manage some of the nation's challenges—with all due respect, that just shows the disrespect and the contempt they also have for Western Australians. That is the sad indictment that we see on those opposite—that they talk a big game where they're from, but when they come here they say nothing. They toe the line and they do what they're told, and that's the sad indictment. It's not just live sheep; let me go to the human toll that is being thrust on regional Australians. In fact, it's great to see the Minister for Health and Ageing here because one of his first acts on getting into government was to remove the designated priority area being restricted to just regional areas. For doctors, the designated priority area meant foreign doctors were only allowed to operate in regional, rural and remote areas, because we didn't have doctors. But, in his wisdom, the minister has decided to change that and extend that so metropolitan and peri-urban areas can now attract those doctors. So if a foreign doctor looks on the internet at Samford, in Brisbane, and then looks at Cunnamulla, in my electorate, I think they're going to pick Samford, with all due respect to the good people of Cunnamulla. I can give a personal experience from my own electorate: I now have communities without doctors. That is the contempt with which people in regional Australia, a challenge which the health minister articulated today in question time—that is the human toll I face. That is the human toll where I have communities that don't have a doctor or health professionals because the government have prioritised metropolitan areas over the lives and livelihoods of people in regional Australia. That's not 'no-one held back and no-one left behind'; that is regional Australians being treated like second-class citizens. How can you come to this place in good conscience and do that to your fellow Australian? How can you look the people of Mitchell, the people of Burke and the people of Cunnamulla in the eye and say, 'You don't have a doctor because I've changed the policy because it's better to fit in a capital city'? This country is better than that and this government should be better than that, and regional Australia is bearing the brunt of it.