Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

You will be surprised to hear that I utterly reject Senator Cash's characterisation of both this debate and what this proposal is! Frankly, if there was one person in the opposition who I would think is least qualified to put an argument about what a proposition is, it would probably be Senator Cash. Because we all know and have all come to learn that Senator Cash's stock-in-trade is exaggeration, hyperbole, misrepresentation, fear and scare campaigns. It was only yesterday, as it turns out—being Friday yesterday—that in question time, I was making the point—