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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Politics
Ian Kirkwood

National Party's Matt Canavan baits Shortland MP Pat Conroy over Labor's carbon credit scheme and coal

PRO-MINING: James Thomson and Matt Canavan carrying their message in Newcastle yesterday, before heading up the valley.

NATIONAL Party Queensland Senator Matt Canavan was in the Hunter yesterday, criticising the ALP for "trading mining jobs for green votes" while justifying the Coalition's preferencing of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

Senator Canavan spoke with media in Newcastle before driving to pre-polling stations at Cessnock and East Maitland in support of the Nationals candidate for Hunter, James Thomson.

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