Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Special Minister of State) Share this | Hansard source

No, I didn't. I said it twice. I'm sure Senator McMahon from the Northern Territory understands that I repeated it—don't you? She heard me, Mr Acting Deputy President.

That's right, yes. Some people in the National Party do understand these things better than others.

You wait and see, Senator McKenzie! Under this Prime Minister, there's been no action on climate change; the industry is miles ahead and has already set its own targets, some of which are to be achieved by 2030. There's a crippling workforce shortage, there's another bumper summer crop on the way and the ag sector is short tens of thousands of workers. A horrific mouse plague has caused devastation across multiple states. There are severe timber shortages—we all know about that—and the government's one billion trees in a decade is never going to be reached. Australia's biosecurity system has been slammed by the Inspector-General of Biosecurity and by the Auditor-General.

And then we have the APVMA. The government relocated the APVMA to Armidale, New South Wales, in 2018. We all know what a fiasco that was—