Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

A little bit of history—history's important and context is important. The current Leader of the Opposition was never the agriculture minister. The Nationals would never give that up, quite frankly, in government or in opposition or at any other time, with all due respect to my great friends in the Liberal Party. The agriculture portfolio belongs with and stays in the National Party, even though I appreciate that the member for Braddon, who is right here, has probably raised more cattle and done more farming than most of us will ever do. That said, I'll take the member for Blair up for asking what we did. He did not give any opportunities or talk about what Labor is doing. I will fill in some of those details for him in a moment.

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