Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Contrary to some of the claims that have been made, I am advised that large trawlers were invited here during the Howard government. They invited one, and I think that has been mentioned couple of times, the MV Veronica, and by the time it arrived in 2005, they stopped it. But the nature of this particular vessel was—

Honourable senators interjecting—