Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I can tell you what they do have a plan to do, and that is increase agriculture to $100 billion from the $60 billion that it is now. If ever there was a friend of the farmers, if ever there was a friend of the National Farmers Federation, it is the Liberal and Nationals who sit on this side of the House.

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

We sit on this side of the House—you may well laugh, Member for Rankin; you wanted to totally destroy agriculture. And the member for Watson over there wanted to take water away from our irrigators. The member for Hunter got the biggest wake-up call on 18 May last year, and all of a sudden he's discovered farmers, he's discovered his regional roots—

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