Bruce Scott (Maranoa, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise this evening to discuss this Labor government's disastrous decision to suspend live cattle exports to Indonesia. The Labor government has spent far too long—and they are continuing to do it now—kowtowing to the interests of minority pressure groups. This is another classic example of listening to those minority pressure groups and making a disastrous decision that has ramifications right across the Top End and right across the beef industry of Australia. It has led to putting on hold our $320 million beef industry. It is an industry that employs some 13,000 Austral­ians including many Aboriginal Australians who have the dignity of a job because of the beef industry in the Top End. This govern­ment just does not care.

Mr Sidebottom interjecting—

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