Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I love it when they interject and make points of order when they know that there is no real point of order. The message I am trying to get across to those on that side is that, if you really care about the salmon industry, if you really do care about the women and men that work in that sector, you would be standing shoulder to shoulder with Labor senators and members of this government to ensure the prosperity of that industry going forward. That's what you would be doing. You would not be coming into this chamber, or going through the media or anywhere else, making unfounded allegations and accusing us of not supporting that industry, and misrepresenting the letter from the Prime Minister to the Tasmanian Premier. One would have to ask: is this part of the strategy? Is the Premier also on the same ticket as my colleague in this chamber? Is he is prepared to misrepresent the truth and the intention of that correspondence? It's so bitterly disappointing.