John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Earlier today the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry knowingly misrepresented a statement I made in a press release on 10 October last year, in which I called for a massive economic stimulus for the irrigation industry to help productivity and maintain jobs at a time when Australia was heading into recession. I did not, as the minister erroneously and knowingly said, call for a general stimulus such as the government’s $10 billion package and $42 billion package.

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