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

As I was saying, Mr President, it was a very long and detailed question, and those parts that I do not deal with now I am happy to take on notice to make sure Senator Colbeck is fully informed in this area. This government has done more in export certification and ensuring that we have full cost recovery of the fees and services that we provide right through this portfolio in agriculture, where we then look at cost recovery from the 2005 era. This government has continued to maintain a cost recovery dealing with those guidelines that the Howard government put in place. We have continued to do that. What we have done is made sure that we can smooth the transition and remove the red tape for agriculture—unlike those opposite. We can take a leaf out of a recent report from the IPA about what those opposite would stand for. That IPA report was about ripping money out of agriculture, ripping money out of the areas and, of course, they had consulted with the coalition MPs. I wonder whether they had consulted with Mr Colbeck.