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STATEMENT - Matt Canavan - Leader of the Nationals

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Thank you to my Nationals colleagues and the members of our great party right across Australia for your support and the honour to lead the Nationals.

The bad news is that things are tough for Australians today. Australians are doing it tough. Power prices are skyrocketing, migration rates are out of control, housing costs are through the roof and our birthrate is in free fall. Australians desperately need leaders that are focused on the practical ways that we can make things better.

The good news is that all of the ways to make things better are here in Australia. We have the resources, the people, the land and the opportunity for a bright future.

My policy as Nationals leader will be to have more Australia ... more Australian farming, more Australian mining and more Australian jobs.

I want to manifest a hyper Australia. We need more Australian babies, more Australian BBQs and more Aussie jokes too!

We do not need to look overseas for solutions. We should not need to rely on overseas countries for basic essentials for fuel. We do not need to import an infinite number of people to artificially keep economic statistics growing.

We have a great team in the Nationals party full of Australian patriots. I can't wait to work with them to deliver for Australians first.

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