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

I thank the honourable member for his question and note the incredible success that such things as the agricultural white paper have had and note all the construction of new grain storage facilities happening through his electorate. As he's always said, the 'new shiny sheds' are going up because we on the coalition side believe in people preparing for drought. We also believe in the Inland Rail. We've put money on the table for the Inland Rail, one of the greatest pieces of infrastructure in our nation, showing a real difference in vision between ourselves and Labor and the Greens, who have really no vision for inland Australia. You could see that in the recent New England election where the Leader of the Opposition never even bothered turning up—not that he should have, because he's not very popular up there.

It's also incredibly important that we stand behind such things as the export of our products and our free trade agreements with especially the Chinese market. Of course, the Labor Party has a great knowledge of the Chinese market, probably none better than Senator Sam Dastyari. He has a spectacular knowledge of the Chinese market. In fact, one could say that he's very valuable in the information that he can deliver! In fact, talking about threats, I think one of the greatest threats is a nation that doesn't protect its security. One of the greatest threats to people protecting their security is when a member of the opposition decides to try to deliver the secrets of our nation to another nation. What's actually disgusting is when—and the Leader of the Opposition can have look at this—

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