James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Lofty heights. What was interesting about that, working under Minister Dutton, was going and looking at our airports and looking at our ports in terms of the huge volume. Sometimes we forget about it, but there is a huge volume of produce that actually does come into this country. We realise that we rely so much on technology in terms of screening—seeing what's there. We rely so much on the professionalism and the hard work of those staff who are on the front line fighting against bad things trying to come into this country. We do put invasive species into the category of bad things, considering they pose such a threat to the economic security of this country. That's why this bill is so important.

The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment process an average of 45,000 commercial cargo referrals each month, that is a lot, and that is why this bill is needed. Senator McMahon talked about the brown marmorated stink bug. I'm just going to call it the stink bug. In terms of the—