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

No, I have been—because for weeks and weeks we have been thinking that the moment would surely come when the National Party decided to ask a question about agriculture in question time. We thought it may be in the first week or maybe in the second. When we come back for the May budget sittings, it will be six months since the election and we will have gone for a full six-month period without anybody from the National Party asking a single question about agriculture.

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