Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Joyce doesn't say, 'I'll just announce my new climate change target.' No. He says, 'I'll listen to the National Party.' Indeed, what do we know about what the National Party thinks? As we've heard, time and time again in this place, they don't support these targets. To be honest, this puts them completely out of step with their own constituency. It's little wonder to me that the National Party has no federal seats in Western Australia. WAFarmers president Rhys Turton said, on record,

We understand that climate change is real, that it's affecting farms in Western Australia and it needs a whole-world approach.

Australian agriculture has an equal and equitable obligation—

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