Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

The rules of the Senate do not allow me to talk to you directly, Senator Fielding, but I am asking you a serious question. I appreciate your comments regarding tourist operators. I for one support that, and I am sure the tourist operators up my way will be very pleased, so thank you for that. I also support you on the primary producers. That is good. Well, it is as good as far as it goes. You said they can buy one every year for 10 years. Senator Fielding, I am just trying to indicate to you that vehicles do not last long there, and Victoria is different to Queensland, Western Australia or the Northern Territory. Every day of the week they go through potholes and bulldust, and they go through slush when the floods come. They even go under water with the—