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

I thank Senator Colbeck for allowing me to be able to explain to him why the agriculture community has more to fear from the policies of those opposite than ours. You have already demonstrated the inability to be able to hold a question on the IER. You did not even go to the next bit. Your questions have been, quite frankly, misleading when you look at the actual document itself. It forecasts a $3.4 billion surplus. You are trying to convince those here that it would be a deficit and, in other words, to paint a negative picture. Again, you do not provide all of the truth in this. What you have actually been able do is use reports like the IPA to rip money out of horticulture and rip money out of research and development. That, is what you stand for. (Time expired)