Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What I have been referring to is the state of the global economic recession; its impact on Australia; the alternative strategies, such as ‘do nothing’, recommended by those opposite; our economic stimulus strategy and the elements of it, together with the new measure which is being delivered today; and those which support that approach. What surprises me most on the part of those opposite—and I see the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry nodding in this direction—is: how could the National Party stand in this place and vote against a $950 payment to drought affected farmers?

How could the member for Wide Bay sit there—as he avoids my gaze—and vote against a $950 payment to drought affected farmers? How could the members of the National Party up there—

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