Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Seventy-two per cent of seafood products that Australians consume are imported from overseas. That will continue to be the case while we have a minister for fisheries who has no interest in the Australian industry and no interest in the science around the fisheries.

I just heard from the Greens political party senator, a typical harbinger of doom for our country, and I cannot avoid the opportunity of talking about global warming. I think the UK Met Office has said there has been no warming for 17 years now, so the rhetoric is now 'climate change', and I see it is now a 'marine heatwave' we are talking about.