Pat Conaghan (Cowper, National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

It's not garbage, because I have spoken to the industry and they are telling me that every day of the week. They want us to unwind this because it is hurting them and it is hurting our farmers. Our farmers are the ones who drive the trucks, who freight all the food and fibre, but Labor wouldn't know anything about that. They just sit in their inner seats with their Teal friends, making bad decisions.

And what about pushing ahead with the water buybacks that ignore the economic and social safeguards for an additional 450 gigalitres? Where is that water going to go? Is it going to go on crops or in dams? No, it's going to go straight out to the ocean—wasted water—because they don't understand the industry.

We could stand here all day. Then there's the methane pledge. 'We're going to stop the cattle from burping and farting.' That's what they want to do. These are policies which are just so out there. They don't care about the farmers, they don't care about you, get rid of them at the next election.

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