Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Senator Wong. I refer the minister to the announcement by Minister Plibersek to consult—over Christmas, no less—on whether to allow salmon farming on Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's West Coast to continue. Given the minister has already indicated in her letter to the Tasmanian Premier on 6 November that the Labor government would likely require the industry to pause—in other words, shut down—will the minister guarantee that not a single one of the 400 West Coast salmon industry jobs will be lost because of this minister's and this government's decision?