Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

That was you, Senator. You are a wise man. Let us not go down this track. The National Party are coming at it in a different way from the Greens but the answer is the same. Senator Heffernan is coming at it in the same way as the National Party. We are interested in rural production. Every time we go back to Queensland, we are out amongst the cane farmers, the dairy farmers or the banana growers. We know what is going on. We can all see the consequences. They may be unintended consequences—no-one is saying that the intention is to go in and do this—but we can tell you, from our own practical experience, because we are around the industries all the time and we see what is happening, that we know what will happen if you get another MIS. I appeal to the government and to the coalition not to go down this track, because we are going to end up in more trouble.