Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The jeers that come from the opposition and the Labor Party when I say that we're having a drought summit tell us a bit about where their priorities are. They want to come in here and go on with all this political rubbish day after day after day. Earlier today, I met with the Deputy Prime Minister and with the special envoy, the member for New England. I met with the head of the National Farmers' Federation and I met with Major General Stephen Day. We received an update on the report of the work that has been done by Major General Stephen Day, who is coordinating the government's response to the drought.

On 26 October, we will bring together people from around the country. I'll be inviting all the state and territory leaders or their nominees or those within their governments who are directly involved in coordinating the drought response to come and align all our efforts to ensure that we're doing a number of things: firstly, that we're getting the feed to where it needs to go to support the efforts of our farmers to keep their properties going and keep them in business; to support the towns; to support the centres; to make sure not only that the farms keep going—

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