Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

I know I am getting very close to it as well, but I still have a few follicles left. The simple fact is this: the excuses that the Australian Labor Party are providing simply do not stack up. In relation to the accountability of this the guarantees are there. The contracts will guarantee that. It is very similar to the situation we have with the egg industry. Nobody has seriously suggested that the egg industry has some serious deficiency because of its regime; similarly, nobody can make out the argument that the forest sector is going to have some problem as a result of the regime that is being proposed in this legislation.