John Madigan (Victoria, Democratic Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Minister, can you explain to me and the Australian public, especially those hundreds of thousands directly involved in cooperatives, why they should accept that the government has all but washed its hands of them and has offered them nothing more than a few token gestures instead of the support they have been asking for during this year that has been dedicated to them?