Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

The live cattle trade is worth close to $2 billion. It's a very significant industry in this country, and I made the point earlier that so many of our northern producers in particular rely upon it. Labor supports it. Labor wants it to thrive. But Labor wants to protect it as well. And Labor want those opposite to work with us in doing so. I don't want those opposite thinking just about the amendment I propose to move tomorrow; I want them thinking about that inspector-general.

The Productivity Commission recently recommended something very similar in their report—commissioned by the government, of course—on regulation of the agriculture sector. We don't hear much about the PC report on regulation in the agriculture sector. Remember, that was one of the government's key themes: red tape. We even had a red-tape reduction day. Do we still have those?

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