Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I can understand the sensitivities of someone who lives in the Gatton valley with a lot of ma and pa farms. I am glad that this will be on the Hansard so that I can send it to your local paper and show what people on your side of the political fence believe about the farming community. It is very important that we stand on behalf of the farming community, which apparently others have grown too sophisticated to support these days. They do not want ma and pa farms, which means, I suppose, that they do not want ma and pa houses. They do not want ma and pa small businesses. They just want to run down the farming community. They want to run down those in small business.

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