Sam McMahon (NT, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, Senator Ruston. Happy birthday, by the way, Senator! My question relates to the ban in 2011 of live cattle exports to Indonesia. This decision sent a billion-dollar industry which employed over 10,000 Australians into absolute chaos after the Labor government shut it down overnight because of left-wing activists. Can the minister outline to the Senate the steps the coalition government has taken to support cattle production in northern Australia after the former Labor government's damaging Indonesian export ban in 2011?