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

Thank you again, Senator Cadell. It's not often that you get an over where you get six full tosses in a row, but here we go! I'm looking forward to the third one as well. Senator Cadell, I'm very sorry that you were given this question because I know that you do care about these matters, but your party's track record on this issue is absolutely abysmal. As I say, I cannot believe that only yesterday your party leader, Mr Littleproud—who is the current shadow agriculture minister and who was the agriculture minister who cut funding for fire ant eradication—told Sky News that the Queensland government 'shouldn't be given any more money to deal with the spread of fire ants'. Can you believe that the National Party is saying that there should be no more funding for the Queensland government for fire ants? Where do you want them? Do you want them running around not just Queensland but also New South Wales, the Hunter, Victoria, Tasmania—they'll probably catch the ferry over, if Mr Littleproud has his way—and South Australia. You want to cut funding that we provided— (Time expired.)