Mr JOYCE (New England—Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources) (14:52): I thank the honourable member for his question and note the importance of backpacker employment and labour in making sure that we harvest the permanent planning in the dairy industry. I note that it is incredibly important that we went into bat for the backpacker industry and backpacker labour. We now have a package coming forward with a 19 per cent tax. This is after consultation with 178 industry groups—welfare groups, unions and labour-hire companies. We invited participation from the general community and got over 1,700 submissions. The announcement by the coalition of a 19 per cent backpacker tax has been welcomed by the National Farmers' Federation, the Queensland Farmers Federation, Grocon, the Northern Territory Farmers Association, the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association, the Australian Regional Tourism Network and the Western Australian Farmers Federation—just to name a few. We also see that Geoffrey Thompson—a stone fruit and apples company—who employ over 1,000 backpackers a season, right down to the Goodwill family, who employ four or five backpackers, are all wanting this to go— Mr Fitzgibbon: The Deputy Prime Minister— The SPEAKER: Does the member for Hunter have a point of order? Mr Fitzgibbon: Yes. The Deputy Prime Minister— The SPEAKER: No, you will state the point of order. Mr Fitzgibbon: It is in anticipation of a ruling on standing order 77. The SPEAKER: That does not apply. Mr Fitzgibbon: No, the Deputy Prime Minister is discussing a new backpacker tax— The SPEAKER: The member for Hunter will resume his seat. That was a frivolous point of order. It was an inventive try, but it was a frivolous point of order nonetheless. Mr JOYCE: You have to give the member for Hunter 10 out of 10 for trying to get a question in anyhow. It is as close as we will get. Once upon a time the Labor Party actually supported a resolution on this. In fact, the members for McMahon, Hunter and Grayndler— Mr Brian Mitchell interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Lyons has been warned. He is continually interjecting. He can leave the chamber under 94(a). The member for Lyons then left the chamber— Mr JOYCE: I seem to get rid of one a day, so it is going well! Mr Perrett interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Moreton is about to be next. Mr JOYCE: We have seen the members for McMahon, Hunter and Grayndler each personally saying that Labor will not countenance this uncertainty dragging on for another seven weeks, let alone seven months. Well, they could fix this in seven seconds if they wished to, because the people holding up this issue from being resolved now are the Australian Labor Party. The member for Bass, the member for Braddon and the member for Lyons—who is no longer here—have been taking farmers around this building, saying that they will see this issue resolved. But now who is holding it up? It is the Australian Labor Party. The other side are so good at playing politics. They are so good at creating a fight. They are not good at creating resolutions. This is just like what those opposite are doing on the plebiscite. They just want the fight; they never want the resolution. The member for Maribyrnong might be wearing an orange tie, but he should get a gold tie for playing politics! Why don't they make the commitment right now? Why don't they make the commitment that they will support us in getting the backpacker tax finalised right now?