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

The level of money in the budget is as I have described. You have some of it in Treasury papers, some of it here. On the extra expenses that you have, there are a series of a expiring programs that do continue, although you will find that some of them appear in different parts of different budget papers.

I will deal then with the comments that were made by the member for Flynn. I have got used to the fact now that the day after any budget there will be a media release from whoever is the Leader of the Nationals and from whoever is the shadow minister for agriculture, fisheries and forestry, saying, ‘This is a disaster for the bush.’ It will always be there. It will always be using the same set of arguments that could have been levelled at any of their previous budgets, based on accounting systems that are used. This budget is, indeed, no different.

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