Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I have had the opportunity of visiting a meatworks. I can certainly go into describing the circumstances and the time, but partly I think the opposition are simply playing politics with this issue. Dinmore meatworks is an area which I have visited and spoken to the industry about. Also not only the domestic market; I have been working with industry, both with the Meat Industry Council and the other representative bodies that I have described, on a couple of major important issues which are significant to those industries and those abattoirs that are domestic, which include export certification. But what I am disappointed about is that the opposition's approach to this is not about supporting animal welfare outcomes so that the trade can continue. What they are about is trying to score cheap political points on animal welfare issues. It is critical that we— (Time expired)