David Littleproud (Maranoa, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

I don't know where the member for Clark, who wants to continually interject about this, gets his economics, but, if he goes and has a look at an abattoir and talks to someone who owns one, they'll tell him very quickly that no-one's going to make that sort of investment unless they can keep it running 365 days a year, not six to nine months of the year. How do you find the workforce for six to nine months and shoot them off again? It doesn't pass the commonsense test. What this government is doing is playing on the ignorance of people in capital cities who don't understand the production cycles and systems and don't understand the world.

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