House debates

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Bills

Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Legislation Amendment Bill 2015, Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Bill 2015, Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land Bill 2015; Second Reading

11:35 am

Photo of Barnaby JoyceBarnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

But I am still waiting for a policy from the Australian Labor Party on agriculture. They say it is so important, but we have never had any policy from them. They can comment on our policies because we have them, we have the white paper—

Mr Fitzgibbon interjecting

The white paper is out there. We are changing farm management bonds to $800,000 and we are going to allow people to offset them against the loan that they have got. We are making sure that we have the capacity to pull more of our product through by making sure that we have, in countries such as China, such as Thailand, such as Korea, invested in the resources in those countries so that we can deal with the issues of—

Mr Fitzgibbon interjecting

And he keeps on interjecting because he has got nothing.

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