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

Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. It gives me great pleasure to add the retort that the only people who have done modelling on expanding the GST is the Labor Party. The Labor Party has done the modelling, so the Labor Party would obviously know the answer to that question. Is this as good as agricultural policy is going to get from the Labor Party? Is this all that we can expect from the Labor Party on agricultural policy? I am afraid it is, because they went to the election and they had—and I quote from The Land: 'No ag policy for ALP'. None. They did not bother going to the election with an ag policy. Obviously, that is what they think of agriculture. I think it was best outlined by the headline in The Land, which you can see here: 'Labor's epic fail'.

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