Barry O'Sullivan (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

This is both a false and a misleading motion in the way it has been drafted. What producers wanted was transparency, accountability and better resourcing for peak bodies and that is happening. They wanted reform and we are seeing the most progressive reform we have seen in decades in the body that governs this, Meat and Livestock Australia. Let me tell all Australians who might be listening one thing. When you want to find out what needs to happen in agriculture, you should not listen to the anti-jobs and the anti-agriculture body of the Greens. They are against live exports. They do not just want to change the way things happen in agriculture; they want it to stop. I recommend that the Senate consider this motion carefully and reject it.

Question negatived.