Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) | Hansard source

Farmers who are going through drought right now are doing it incredibly tough. That is why our government has put $7 billion worth of measures into the communities and on the tables of farmers, and, obviously, there are a suite of loans available to our primary producers for restocking and replanting. We've got additional mental health support going into those affected communities. Right across the board, our government is taking the drought incredibly seriously. So for you to stand up and somehow say that we don't get it and we aren't standing by our farming communities is absolutely misrepresenting what the government is doing. It is why the Prime Minister made it his first order of business. It's why he stood with the premiers—Labor premiers and Liberal premiers—when he first became Prime Minister, and called the National Drought Summit: so that together we can underpin the productive capacity of our regional communities who are struggling with drought.