David Littleproud (Maranoa, National Party, Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management) Share this | Hansard source

It's quite interesting that members of the Labor Party are interested in bringing in workers from overseas, when their masters, the AWU, have been so vitriolic about the fact that we are now trying to support Australian agriculture with seasonal workers from ASEAN countries. The way the AWU is demonising Australian farmers with this generalisation that they are exploiting workers is disgraceful. If you want to generalise, we could generalise about the union movement. Weren't there a whole lot of union members that actually went to jail?

An opposition member: How is this relevant?

Weren't there a whole lot of union members that actually have been found guilty? So, if you want to demonise Australian farmers—

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