Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He interjects again, Mr Speaker. I've already explained to him once that the Future Drought Fund is not to provide direct financial assistance payments to farmers; it's there to provide direct support for water resilience projects to plan for the future.

Mr Fitzgibbon interjecting—

If the member for Hunter doesn't think it's a good idea to invest in water resilience for the future of Australian agriculture, he should leave the post of spokesperson on agriculture immediately, because he doesn't understand one of the most fundamental elements of agriculture in this country, which is that you have to provide water. When there's a drought, it means there's no water. So therefore you need to provide storage facilities for the—

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