Brian Mitchell (Lyons, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I acknowledge she's since changed—of course she's changed her mind now she's the deputy Liberal leader. With the opposition leader breathing down her neck, of course she has. But we know what's in her heart. We know what she really thinks.

One of the more tiresome tropes of this place is those opposite claiming this government doesn't get the regions. We have a number of regional MPs: Ministers Collins, King, McBain, McCarthy, Marles, Conroy and Jones, as well as the members for Gilmore, Bendigo, Cunningham, Dobell, Lingiari, Hunter, Newcastle, Paterson and myself, to name a few.

The fact is our Labor government is committed to a robust, sustainable agriculture industry, which currently stands at $84 billion a year and is expected to get to $86 billion. We stand by that, and we're going to grow it.

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