House debates

Thursday, 20 September 2018

Bills

Criminal Code Amendment (Food Contamination) Bill 2018; Second Reading

11:04 am

Photo of Craig KellyCraig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Strawberry farmers are facing dire consequences as a result of this act of economic sabotage or economic terrorism, as it can rightly be called. We are fighting back. We are fighting back in this parliament by today passing emergency legislation to increase the penalties against those criminals who engaged in this act. All Australians can help to fight back to support our farmers. This week I call on every Australian household to get out there and buy not just one or two but at least half a dozen punnets of strawberries. If we can do that, we can show our strawberry—

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