It’s selectively looked at. People can make their own judgements about that. When we make a commitment, we keep it.
When we commit to support local community organisations, when we commit to bust congestion in urban areas, whether it’s here in Ryan or any other parts of the country, when we make that commitment, Australians know that we’ll keep it. In addition to that, when Australians are facing tough times – the grants you’re talking about have predominantly gone into rural and regional areas, particularly here in Queensland, because they were dealing with drought-affected communities and grants going into drought-affected communities. S
o people in rural and regional Australia understand that when they’re doing it tough, they know the Liberals and Nationals, the LNP in Queensland, will be here to support them. Others might want to criticise us for keeping our commitments. They might want to criticise us for the support we’ve given to drought-affected and flood-affected communities but when I make a commitment to do those things, I carry it through.
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