Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

A supplementary question, Mr President. Does the government agree with the New South Wales Primary Industries Minister, Ian Macdonald, when he said that the ban ‘put 875 jobs at risk in a part of New South Wales already struggling to deal with the effects of prolonged drought’ and when he said: ‘I have no idea why the federal government would take this action right at this time. That is quite a significant employment level when we’re talking about areas which are already devastated by drought and have lost hundreds of workers’?