John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Food Security) Share this | Hansard source

You would think that ex-union officials would know how to bargain! Can you imagine them saying, ‘We want a wage rise but we’re not really all that fussed about it’? The apple industry have been devastated—and we are talking about food prices here—by the decision that New Zealand apples will be able to come into Australia, and then they see their Prime Minister standing in the New Zealand Parliament celebrating that fact with the New Zealanders. This is a fire blight situation. You would not go to the New Zealand Parliament and celebrate, saying, ‘You can bring them in.’

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