Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

I hear the interjections on fishing. It is always amazing that, when you are actually doing something that the previous government were unable to do, the opposition then find an extra position which is yet another thing that they never did. It shines a very clear light on the inadequacies of the previous government to deliver a labelling system which is what the Australian people asked for. We will be the government that actually see that labelling system in place.

People have said that the labelling system we have uses weasel words. It does not actually reflect whether a product comes from our nation. It can come from a myriad of nations, and maybe not come from our nation at all, yet it manages to get the words 'made in Australia' on it. In relation to proportionality, either a bar graph or a pie chart, which are part of the examples out for public discussion, this will give people the opportunity to discuss these and other avenues of clearly identifying a proper labelling system that the Labor government was unable to introduce.

In fact, everything that the Labor Party does is a commentary on issues that they never did. They never brought in a proper agriculture policy. They never brought in a proper drought policy. They absolutely decimated the Department of Agriculture.

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