Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I know that they get very excited when the member for Hunter gets a question. I can understand why they would raise their voices. But it is very important to understand that it was the former Treasurer, now the member for Lilley—and he seems to be here for a fair while. The reason we had a 32½ per cent rate is by reason of the actions of the previous government, the Labor government.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal brought about a result in November last year that meant that we had to not allow them to get the tax-free threshold. What we did was made sure we had a long form of investigation, a long form of report that included the NFF. The NFF was part of it. The VFF was part of it. The NT Farmers were part of it. When we came to an agreement on a rate, the rate was 19 per cent. Everybody agreed to it.

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