Nick Xenophon (SA, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

a very sweet barramundi, in the context of raising awareness of that bill—as well as the awareness of a number of other crossbenchers! This bill relates to the labelling of seafood products. What is interesting is that if you buy seafood in a supermarket, it tells you which country it comes from. But if you buy seafood that has been cooked and prepared in the fish and chip shop or restaurant right next to the supermarket, you have no idea where it comes from; there is no requirement to label it.

The Northern Territory moved on this a number of years ago and it has been a great success. It has boosted jobs in the Territory, and we heard in evidence to the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee that literally thousands of jobs will be created in our agriculture and seafood industries if this bill will—