Guardian: Watching rural Liberal backbencher Sharman Stone give the prime minister a free character assessment and troll colleagues over the SPC Ardmona decision, its hard to avoid the impression that jobs in agriculture are somehow more important than other jobs in Australia.
Its not unusual for local members to think their constituents jobs are crucial to the economy: we certainly heard that when the government effectively hounded GM Holdens manufacturing operations from our shores (and not coincidentally...