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

I thank the member for Hume, who I know has a very strong and very deliberate understanding and passion in agriculture. The white paper has received close to 680 submissions. It has had more submissions to it, I believe, than any other white paper that has ever been—in recent memory, anyhow—before the parliament. So I am informed. I am willing to be corrected, but that is the mail I am getting at this point in time. We have had around 25 face-to-face meetings—

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