Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

That is the question. The fact seems to have escaped the Labor Party that it was they who came charging in to deregulate the single desk. It was the Labor Party that decided that the market had to reign supreme. It was the Labor Party that dragged small farmers kicking and screaming to the lowest common denominator, to be held hostage by those who have complete and utter market power over them. But this is a point that the Labor Party seem to have conveniently forgotten and Mr Rudd seems to have conveniently left out in his little totem in the Monthly.