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

The National Party stands with Australian farmers to support their property rights. We're very proud to be able to do that at a state level, as has been indicated by LNP state members of parliament in your home state of Queensland, Senator Roberts. They are fighting against the native vegetation legislation that the Palaszczuk government seems so intent on sticking with and the impact it's having on the primary producers in your home state.

It was quite a long preamble; there was a lot in there. I'm very happy to outline our government's approach to climate change and the impacts on agriculture. I'm very happy to outline how energy costs affect our primary producers and our food processing sector, which you know employs hundreds of thousands of Australians, predominantly in rural and regional Australia. But if the essence of your question is if the National Party stands with our Australian farmers to protect their property rights: yes, we do.