Senate debates
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Bills
Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural Protection) Bill 2019; In Committee
12:44 pm
Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) | Hansard source
Yes. And I hope the state Labor government in that jurisdiction acts on the inquiry they're conducting right now to examine how they can strengthen trespass laws in my home state of Victoria because—as you know, and as I hope you'd be equally concerned about—the Gippy Goat Cafe incident highlighted the deficiencies within the system in Victoria. It was a lawful business. Activists targeted it over and over again. They went out of business. And the young person concerned—for wrecking a family's business and putting them out of business, as they were unable to go on, and they had a lot of mental health stress along the way—got fined a dollar. So I hope that the Victorian state government act on the inquiry they're conducting at the moment so that our home state of Victoria has strong trespass laws.
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