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

So many things have been brought up. Why isn't the Labor Party wanting to build dams in Capricornia? That is a question on everybody's lips. Why does the Labor Party stand against decentralisation? Why doesn't it support the RIC? Those are questions on everybody's lips. Why doesn't the Labor Party get out and support the Inland Rail? That is a question on everybody's lips. Why doesn't the shadow minister ever get a question in question time? That is not on anybody lips, but I want to talk about it. Why doesn't Albo ever get a question? I do not know. Who would know? It is an embarrassment for the Labor Party to even have a shadow minister for agriculture because they never ask a question on it.

We have delivered so much. The other questions we are happy to take on notice. We will get back to you, because there are so many questions that need to be answered about why we are doing such an incredible job in agriculture, how we are delivering for horticultural producers in the seat of Murray, what we are doing in the apple industry, how we are building a $4 billion organisation in Orange, how we are going to build dams in Central Queensland—except the Labor Party does not support us—and how we are going to do more sealing of the Laverton to Winton Road in western Queensland.

Of course the question on everybody's lips is: when are the Labor Party going to take this seriously? When are they going to take agriculture seriously? When are they actually going to mount up? When are they going to support decentralisation?

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