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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Apparently this is not so. I refer the minister to the comments of John Berry of JBS Swift Australia, who said last week that the carbon tax is putting his business under extreme pressure, and that the 25,000-tonne threshold is creating a two-tiered beef industry. Why is the government making life tougher for our beef industry processing workers who are at a risk of losing their jobs or being put off shifts because of this crazy, arbitrary limit?