Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Crossin for her continued interest in this area. If you look at the biggest risk to Australian agriculture, it is Mr Abbott being unable to settle on one policy without the doormats from the Nationals flipping the Liberals. It is a risk because he is outsourcing his leadership to Senator Joyce. The opposition are at risk because they have only one trick: aggressiveness and negativity. That is the only policy you have got. You harp on and harp on about it, but, on illegal logging, the doormats have flipped you again. You had a very sensible policy. I see Senator Colbeck looking down, because you had a sensible policy on illegal logging in 2010. You flipped on that one, you flipped on wheat, you flipped on foreign investment, and— (Time expired)