John Forrest (Mallee, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, on indulgence and in the spirit of the comments of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, I seek to put a question to him. The thing that is worrying my farmers is that the portfolio budget statements—I think it is page 60—attempt to explain why the forward estimates do not add EC but contain the sentence ‘because EC is to be terminated’. I wonder whether the minister might put on the public record and make a contribution to the gesture he is asking for by removing the fear.

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