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

The member for Herbert certainly wants to know whether the Labor Party are going to put skinks and snakes ahead of the working men and women of Australia. It is a clear question: where do your priorities lie? Do you still stand behind those in high-vis or do you stand behind the 'high-vis' snakes and skinks which we never actually find, we never actually know about, until you go looking for them? The opposition are more interested in supporting their friends in the Greens than supporting the working men and women of Central Queensland.

Now, we have made sure that the farmers still have standing in the court. We have had cabinet discussions to make sure that they still have standing and they can still fight their issues, and that is the information that we have received from the Attorney-General. Those are the discussions of cabinet. But what you have not done—

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