Andrew Broad (Mallee, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I think I'm now the member for Broad! So I've got a seat named after me. This discussion has been motivated by a Four Corners program. Let's just reflect on that, because there was once a government that had a kneejerk reaction to a Four Corners program. I was the leader of the Victorian Farmers Federation at the time, and I remember talking to agriculture minister Joe Ludwig, who, I think, wrongly got blamed. He was hung out to dry by Gillard, the Prime Minister at the time. So we are not going to have a kneejerk reaction to a Four Corners program. The first thing we can take from this discussion is that that is the difference that separates us from them. We are making decisions to govern the country; they are reacting to TV stories. That said, we need to think through the water issues.

I do have some sympathy for the member for Watson, the Manager of Opposition Business. I know: our love is united! But I watched you have to clean up the mess made by the worst water minister Australia ever saw, and that was Penny Wong—the worst water minister Australia ever saw. She destroyed confidence, she smashed the—

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