Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

It is a hard choice to make, because under our government they a getting $100,000 for a B-double of sheep. That is because of the actions of our government. Under their government, if a sheep died I know you would throw it in the gully. With prices like those under our government you would have to give it a state funeral, I suppose!

Under our government we have moved 16,000 litres a milk a week from the North Coast of New South Wales and it is getting between $9 and $12 a litre. Our government is supporting the $80 million development of what Devondale is doing to expand their plant in Tasmania. Under our government we are actually getting turnaround. We have three months to go and our figures for dairy production basically equal your figures for the whole year. Under out government we are actually getting things moving ahead. That is why under our government agriculture is up 19.3 per cent in value for the quarter compared with what it was. The problem is that if you get their government back—

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