Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Let us go to the other three chords you talk about, Minister. Your own department issued a press release in January this year that stated that there had been improvements to animal welfare. What were you basing that on? Were you basing that on what we saw on Four Cornersor was that before the Four Corners story—or on a more holistic view of the whole industry, noting the areas where people had actually been doing the right things? Minister, you have been damned by your own words. What are your comments on that?