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

I thank the honourable member for his question. It is great hearing from someone from St George. Obviously we both have an association with St George—his in Sydney and mine in western Queensland. It is also great to hear from someone from an urban electorate who has a real concern that we have the proper controls over the application for the purchase of Australian land. We all know that at the very centre, the very essence, of what we are as a nation is the land we stand on—and there is so much that we have to do to make sure that we respect that. We must make sure that there is a real pride in the ownership of that land; we must make sure that there is real dignity in the return people get off that land; and we must make sure that there is a real diligence in the management. It is in diligence of the management which—

Mr Bowen interjecting—

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