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

This bill, if passed, will be devastating not only for farming families who have been in the industry for generations but also for local workers on farms, in sugar mills, in sugar transportation and at the ports. It will indeed hurt local economies.

The Queensland Labor government just hasn't been listening, despite running such a farcical consultation process. They went through Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Bundaberg; they took 11,000 submissions from farmers, and yet they cannot listen. So let me put on the record some voices of real canegrowers on the ground. Burdekin canegrower Phil—