Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

for Senator Joyce. If you look at its policies, you see that the National Party is simply a doormat to the Liberals. They run out issues about royalties for CSG; they run out issues about caps on foreign investment. None of them are going to be allowed by those opposite, the Liberal Party. They are simply going to run their spurious arguments in the hope that they will be able to get them up in the party room. I doubt that you will be able to get them up in the party room, because they are not looking after rural Australia. They do not care about rural Australia. They are simply turning politics into a fine art— (Time expired)