Peter McGauran (Gippsland, National Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Lingiari, who has a great interest in water reform and has spoken often on the subject, said with regard to the preselection war that it was the work of ‘standover merchants, thugs and other sleazebags’. So there you have it: the Leader of the Opposition has done nothing for agriculture. In the absence of the member for Corio the Labor Party will do nothing for agriculture.

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