House debates Personal Explanations

Agriculture

Tuesday, 28 October 2014 House of Representatives

Joel Fitzgibbon

Joel Fitzgibbon Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture

3:17 pm

I wish to make a personal explanation.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Joel Fitzgibbon

Joel Fitzgibbon Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture

I do, Madam Speaker—about three minutes ago by the Minister for Agriculture.

Joel Fitzgibbon

Joel Fitzgibbon Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture

The Minister for Agriculture claimed rather strangely that in my earlier intervention I somehow suggested that the NFF wrote the Labor Party's policy. No; what I said was that the NFF rated the Labor Party's very good and comprehensive agriculture policy. To help him, I seek leave to table the NFF scorecard, which shows Labor ahead of the coalition on agriculture policy.