Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

As I was pointing out, the National Party had been calling for the exclusion of agriculture from the CPRS, and yet when it happens all they can do is ridicule that position. Unfortunately for the National Party—they have been so keen in recent years on crawling out from underneath that Liberal Party doormat and the dust cloud is rising—they do not know what a yes or no answer is. They cannot identify a clear policy position even when they have called for it themselves. That is how lost the National Party is on this and many other issues. As part of a positive agenda for assisting Australia’s farmers—