Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce promises to defend family farms

By Dan Harrison, Darren Gray
Updated October 21 2014 - 7:18am, first published 6:13am

Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, who has promised to defend the interests of family farms against threats from mining companies and supermarket giants, has risked alienating some rural landowners with an ambitious dam-building proposal.

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