Senate debates
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Bills
Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural Protection) Bill 2019; In Committee
11:14 am
Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) | Hansard source
And I will take whatever interjection, because I actually want to read it in Hansard later, to see what Senator Watt called me. But what we know is that during the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee the Labor Party recommended that this bill be withdrawn and redrafted to rasp some of the rough edges off it and then resubmitted to that committee for inquiry. That is exactly the wording in the Australian Greens second reading amendment that Labor voted against. The term 'gross hypocrisy' doesn't even come close to describing the Labor Party's behaviour. And now, to compound their sins, they have suggested to the government moving an amendment that broadens the definition of primary production business to include the business of operating a wood processing facility or a wood fibre processing facility—in other words, a woodchip mill.
So, Minister, given that this amendment that the Labor Party suggested to you has somehow magically now become a government amendment, I've got some questions that I want to ask you about it. Firstly, would this include any wood processing facilities or wood fibre processing facilities on public land?
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