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

You talk of global warming; hell will freeze over before I start listening to the Greens, I tell you what. I'm asked about climate, I'm asked about the social fabric of Australia and I'm asked about farmers. I, my Nationals colleagues, the Liberals, too, will always stand up for jobs. We will always stand up for doing what is right for the nation. We will always stand up for farmers. I'm the son of a generational farming family and how dare you, member for Melbourne, come into this place and dare question my support for farmers. I will always stick up for those primary producers who put food, who put fibre on to the tables and into the wardrobes of people such as the member for Melbourne. Indeed, we will always do what's right for Australian households, factories and farms but we will do it in a practical and sensible way.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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