Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am telling you the policy that the wheat growers have. What the Labor Party did was to tell the working wheat-growing families that they would listen to them and help to implement their policy. They have now found that they have been deserted by the Labor Party. They should have known that they would be, because the Labor Party does not have a great deal of affection for farmers. Wheat growers have been completely let down. They do not know where they are going. They do not know how they will finance a crop, because the estimated pool returns are not there. They cannot go to the bank and tell the bank manager what price they will get for their wheat. The bank manager is not going to take an estimate or a guesstimate. He is going to say, ‘I want to know what you’re going to get for that wheat before I come up with the $200,000 or $300,000 for planting.’ (Time expired)