Senate debates
Monday, 1 July 2024
Bills
Export Control Amendment (Ending Live Sheep Exports by Sea) Bill 2024; Second Reading
10:00 pm
Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) | Hansard source
At the request of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and pursuant to contingent notice, I move:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent further consideration of the bill without limitation of time.
Colleagues, what can I say? Minister Watt has just said it all. Tonight, the Australian Labor Party say they'll deliver an election commitment. Guess what? We, on this side of the chamber, say you will close down an industry in Western Australia. You will turn your back on Western Australians, including the truckies, the farmers and the shearers. But you don't care because, despite 60,000 people signing the Keep the Sheep petition and despite the thousands and thousands of jobs that will soon—
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