Brian Burston (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Senator Canavan. Your counterparts in the New South Wales government have begun the Commercial Fisheries Business Adjustment Program. This badly-designed program, administered by the coalition government and a National Party minister, will force fisherman to pay through the nose to maintain the catching rights that they currently have and will force many operators out of business. Can you advise what contact you have had with your New South Wales counterparts in regard to this issue and what efforts you have made to dissuade them from this path, which will be so destructive to our local fishing industry?