Senate debates

Thursday, 12 September 2019

Bills

Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural Protection) Bill 2019; In Committee

12:40 pm

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

Each state and territory has a different arrangement around trespass—how it relates to private property and the like. You'd have to look at the trespass legislation in each jurisdiction. What this piece of legislation deals with is not how trespass law is enacted or dealt with at a jurisdictional level; that is way outside our constitutional remit. What it deals with is using a carriage service to incite people to criminal activity on farms, abattoirs and other agriculture facilities such as saleyards and the like.

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