Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I am hopeful you will extend me an indulgence to join with the Minister for Agriculture, on behalf of the opposition, in extending best wishes to those farm families who are facing a very difficult time at the moment with the drought and, of course, who are facing a very, very difficult Christmas. It is a Christmas which will be made all the more difficult by the fact that there is not one additional new cent in that drought package, just a rehash—

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