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

What those opposite are relying on is guaranteeing that any cattle that leave Australia will end up in a particular abattoir of that standard, but there is no guarantee. What those opposite want to be able to do is say, 'Here is an abattoir that we can send to and we should send to,' but they cannot guarantee it and what they are mischievously trying to suggest is that they can. You cannot guarantee such a thing as there is no supply chain assurance in place as we speak.

It is wrong to suggest that simply concentrating on an abattoir of a particular standard solves the problem. The problem has to be solved by industry itself looking at how it can put in place a supply chain assurance so that we can have traceability, we can have accountability and we can have transparency and an audit of that supply chain to make sure that the welfare of any cattle that leave Australia is taken care of throughout the supply chain right up to the point of slaughter. (Time expired)