House debates Questions without Notice

Agriculture: Foreign Investment

Thursday, 12 February 2015 House of Representatives

Barnaby Joyce

Barnaby Joyce New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture

2:57 pm

has shown that we have listened to the Australian people. The Australian people, whether that is in Sydney, or Melbourne, or Brisbane, want to make sure that there are better controls and better oversight on the purchase of our most precious asset: our land. That is why we listened to the Australian people and when they asked for the changes we gave them the changes—moving it down from $252 million down to $15 million. But there is an alternate policy.

Mr Fitzgibbon interjecting

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