Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

As I indicated in my previous answer, the decision around penalty rates was a matter for the Fair Work Commission, the independent umpire. The senator asked what we are going to do to mitigate it. I tell you what we are not going to do: we are not going to impose a carbon tax on regional people that is going to decimate them, which we saw under the previous Labor government. What we are not going to do to regional Queensland is ban the live export cattle trade to Indonesia—that decimated regional Queensland.