Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Crossin for her second supplementary question. Senator Boswell and Senator Joyce are modern-day doomsday preachers, peddlers of misery. They love doom and gloom stories. They love telling the public that the world will end. Like the doomsayers, they will come unstuck on the facts. They will come unstuck because the facts speak for themselves. There is only a small amount of displaced GDP, and commercial fishers will be assisted to adjust. The reserves will not stop recreational fishers from dropping a line on the weekend, like I will be doing. The Liberals and Nationals appear to be happy only when they are saying the sky is falling in, when they are saying towns are be being wiped off the map and when they are saying Australians are up against the wall. No good news comes from those opposite. They only want to peddle misery. The Liberals and Nationals continue to carry on with gloom and doom. (Time expired)