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

I feel the need to respond. Senator, no, this legislation goes in no way towards stopping Australians' right to peaceful protest. What it does say is that if you want to get online, get your mates and say, 'Let's go break into this business, let's go harass this family, let's go steal this stock and let's go cause this biosecurity risk,' then not the trespasser but you, the person inciting it, will be prosecuted. Those who are actually committing the act of trespass, theft, vandalism, harassment et cetera will be prosecuted under state law. Those are the facts.

You stand in here and talk about old-growth forests. You're trying to lock up old-growth hardwood forests that my father planted in the 1960s—40 years ago. Mountain ash forests are planted through Victoria. They're the things that you are now claiming should be part of this lock-up process that the Greens are just so passionate about. Tell anyone that lives in those communities of Walhalla, Erica or anywhere that went through the bushfires in Victoria about that approach to land management. We know it doesn't work.