NATIONAL Party leader Barnaby Joyce will make a visit to Indi at the start of the final week of campaigning in the marathon federal election.
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The Deputy Prime Minister will make stop offs in Beechworth and Wodonga on Monday as the Nationals still consider themselves a chance of winning back the seat they last held in the mid-1970s.
The neighbouring Murray electorate is also a target seat for the Nationals.
Joyce is also under pressure to retain his own seat of New England in northern NSW where he is up against former independent MP Tony Windsor.
Nationals candidate Marty Corboy will join Mr Joyce at Beechworth Honey and the Wodonga pre-poll centre.
“It will be great to have the Deputy Prime Minister back in Indi again so close to the election,” Mr Corboy said.
“It’s been a long campaign, but we are excited about the last week of the battle.”
Mr Joyce was previously in Indi for the opening of Mr Corboy’s campaign office in Wangaratta.
The Nationals leader spoke at the Coalition launch on Sunday and talked up the government’s regional achievements including kick-starting the inland rail freight route between Brisbane and Melbourne via Albury and funding for mobile phone blackspot eradication.
He will travel through one of the worst blackspot areas in Indi between Wodonga and Beechworth on Monday.
“We believe in growing our nation in new places,” Mr Joyce said at the launch.
“We believe in the vision that takes us beyond the Great Dividing Range.
“We’ve got the money on the table to do precisely that.
“It is the same sort of vision we've seen with the rollout of mobile phone towers and the NBN.”
He again turned up the heat on the Green-Labor-Independent alliance _ “The Glee Club” _ as the alternative government.
“They are out there and can't think of a policy so they've dreamt up lies and are talking about them,” Mr Joyce said.
“I’m waiting for them to say we are going to hock off the moon to Mars.
“Why not? Then they can fight against that as well and they will probably have more success.”
Mr Joyce said farmers were enjoying record prices.
“Our rural exports in this nation now are second only iron ore,” he said.
“We are turning things around because we are managers.
“They closed down the live cattle trade, we expanded it.”
