During Question Time in federal parliament, Mr Scott asked the Prime Minister: “With urea prices hitting record highs over the weekend and the drought continuing to wreak havoc across Australia, does the Prime Minister agree with Australian of the Year, Lee Kernaghan that he has abandoned the bush and farming families?”

Mr Scott said the Prime Minister has deliberately ignored the claim he is abandoning Australia’s farmers and instead has accused the Coalition Government over failing to keep down fertiliser prices.

“Mr Rudd claims, most likely for dramatic emphasis, that the problem is the cost of fertiliser has been around for 'a long, long, long time'.

"I’m not sure what Mr Rudd considers a ‘long, long, long time’, but the price of fertiliser has doubled only within the last 18 months or so,” Mr Scott said.

“Although he boasted he had entered into ‘a dialogue’ over the fertiliser market with the president of Nauru, it is quite obvious Mr Rudd is only prepared to sit and watch fertiliser prices rise for farmers.

“While Mr Rudd may not be ready to admit it, I am in complete agreement with Australian of the Year Lee Kernaghan – the Prime Minister is abandoning farming families,” he said.

While performing at the Gympie Muster over the weekend, Lee Kernaghan conducted an interview on the ABC in which he said: “Our PM said that he was going to support working families.

"Well, some of the hardest working families that I know are farming families.

"And the level of assistance they get is pitiful…I just don't think they are being valued and I will just be straight up with you. They are being abandoned”