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

(—) (): I thank Senator Sterle for his second supplementary question. The biggest risk to Australian farmers' prosperity these days is the opposition and their out-of-puff leader, Mr Tony Abbott. We cannot get a clear position from them on anything that is important for farmers across Australia. While the government releases policy after policy to set up this country for the future, the Liberals are threatening to split in WA and South Australia. The doormats are calling the shots across Australia and the so-called coalition cannot get their rules together on foreign investment. They cannot agree on a Murray-Darling consensus plan. They cannot agree on deregulation of the wheat industry. The Leader of the Opposition knows only one thing: relentless negativity on all of those issues right across the board. It is the same tired routine being played out every time by those opposite, turning up at the same tired doorstops with the same relentless negativity. (Time expired)