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

I thank Senator McKenzie for her good try at this. I will take that on notice as I understand the question relates to Minister Crean's portfolio, well outside the climate change portfolio. But it is very clear that within climate change we are doing an enormous amount of work with local farmers and rural communities about the impacts of carbon, how we can mitigate it and how we can support that, if you look at the work that is currently being undertaken, both filling the research gap and action on the ground. Action on the ground is incredibly important. I was in Clare in South Australia with the No-Till Farmers Association and they were keen to see the benefits of how they could sequestering carbon and how they could make money from carbon. Who was missing from that? The National Party, because they do not want to support farmers in rural Australia to find out about how they can lower their emissions— (Time expired)