Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Does the minister acknowledge that with the importation of Philippine bananas comes the chance and, over time, the likelihood of the importation of these diseases and, in fact, the inevitability of these diseases coming into Australia and decimating the banana industry, which is an employer of up to 5,000 people in North Queensland, as well as decimating millions upon millions of dollars of industry in North Queensland?