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

I really like the member for Paterson. I think she's a great egg. She is the parliamentary co-chair of the friends of soil. I acknowledge her work, and I acknowledge her experience in that regard. But, sadly, the Labor government took away the position in August 2023 of the Soils Advocate. Penny Wensley was doing a great job, and it's just one example of how Labor has let down our agriculture sector. It's no fault of the member for Paterson. I want to place that firmly on the record. She is a good advocate. But her colleagues and certainly the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry—who knows who it was at the time—let the nation down.

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