Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I have always made clear that it is important for me to spend as much time as I can out on the land, meeting on their own land people who work the land. It surprised me from the moment that I got this job, going out and conducting those visits, that a lot of the local media thought this was new. A lot of them were saying, ‘We’re surprised to see a minister for agriculture actually coming out and visiting us.’ I never thought that would be the case.

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