Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) | Hansard source

You raise really good questions. The reason we want a nationally consistent approach to incitement is that there needs to be one rule across the nation for the use of the internet and carriage services to incite this. The fact that our states deal with trespass and related issues differently is a problem, which is why it's up for discussion at the agriculture ministers' MINCO, and the Attorney-General has been in contact with his counterparts to discuss how we can have a much more consistent approach. We've applied it in this way because the fact is that, if somebody incites through social media, you can potentially have hundreds or thousands of criminals on your property within hours, destroying stock, destroying your livelihood and harassing your workers and your family, with no warning. That is the pervasiveness and the responsiveness of social media in this case. That is one of the reasons it has such a significant penalty ascribed to it. The person inciting—the keyboard warrior, if you like; so passionate about shutting down the livestock industry in this country, our fishers and our foresters—