Julie Collins (Franklin, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing and Mental Health) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. In recent months, we've seen the devastating agricultural impacts of fruit fly in Tasmania for the first time ever, coming after the Hodgman government slashed Tasmania's biosecurity budget. Doesn't this outbreak simply confirm that the biosecurity failures of this conservative government, and the conservative Hodgman government in Tasmania, are causing real harm to Tasmania's fruit-growing industry and the thousands of jobs in my state that rely on it?

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