Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Regional Services) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator, for your question. I completely reject the premise about the Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormack. He has been absolutely delivering for our farmers right across regional Australia and continuing a long tradition of our party standing up for the 30 per cent of Australians who don't live in capital cities. If we want to talk about decisions made by governments that have a significant impact on rural and regional Australia, I can think of no better example than the decision by the former Labor government to ban live exports.