Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

The National Farmers Federation, against great pressure from many of their own membership, refused to have anything to do with that rally, based on good principle. The attendance there taught us nothing about the issue but a lot about the Leader of the Opposition—erratic, self-obsessed and with twisted morality. It is a lesson which will not be forgotten.

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