Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Obviously the member for Hughes has struggled with his reading as well, but if he reads the second reading amendment he will know quite clearly that this is a wide-ranging debate. This tactic is all about protecting the Deputy Prime Minister. They have him in witness protection. I saw him turn up for the Australian Farmer of the Year awards upstairs. I've never seen him camera shy before, but around the loop he went, with the journos and cameramen running after him. How embarrassing it has become for this Deputy Prime Minister. Just when you thought he couldn't be any more hopeless, he turns up day after day to prove it yet again. His performance in the agriculture sector has been hopeless. I am ready to say now that Barnaby Joyce will go down in history as the worst agriculture minister this country has ever had.

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