House debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Questions without Notice

Drought

2:51 pm

Photo of Joel FitzgibbonJoel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

I'm after the organ grinder.

The SPEAKER: I think the member will withdraw.

I withdraw, Madam Speaker. Prime Minister, in February you and your agriculture minister announced, with much fanfare, that additional drought assistance for farmers was imminent. Why then, more than three months on, have you and your minister broken that promise to farming communities by failing to deliver not one cent of drought concessional loans to a farming family?

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