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

I thank the honourable member for his question and must note that we have adjoining seats. One of our towns is Urbenville. On the way to Urbenville, from either my side or his side, you go past lots of what Paul Howes from the AWU would call ma and pa farms. It is an absolute insult that this has been turned into a pejorative. It is something that reflects in excess of 95 per cent of Australian farming.

But at Urbenville we could talk about the things that the coalition are doing for farming, such as the farm finance package which we have got out today. We have managed to sign off all the mainland states and territories so that we can provide a product that the Labor Party were unable to provide. We would be able to talk about getting the live cattle trade up and running again—

Mr Champion interjecting—

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