Julie Collins (Franklin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Community Services ) Share this | Hansard source

making sure that we get our decision-making right and that the science is right before we go ahead and allow this vessel to fish in our waters.

There were some outbursts from my opponents, the Liberals, over there. There was an editorial in the Tasmanian Examiner yesterday, written by the deputy editor, Barry Prismall, in which he said that the Liberals in Tasmania have been strategically outmanoeuvred by the Labor Party in Tasmania, and:

It is mystifying that the head of the next Liberal half-Senate ticket, Senator Richard Colbeck, is defending the super trawler.

They do not oppose the super-trawler, but the rest of Australia does. It is only the Liberals in Tasmania who do not realise that this is a big issue in Tasmania and in the rest of Australia.

I commend the bill to the House.

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