Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) | Hansard source

Again, this is just more delaying tactics from an opposition that isn't prepared to respect the result of the last election and isn't prepared to respect the work of the independent panel that we appointed to undertake some consultation across Western Australia. The panel met with hundreds of people across Western Australia, took thousands of submissions from across Western Australia and provided advice to the government on how we should deliver this election commitment. That's what this legislation is about. We've got an opposition that continues to refuse to accept the result of the last election, where the Australian people actually voted for us to do this.

They're also not prepared to accept a $107 million transition package that the people of Australia are committing to through their government. I remind you that under the last government we saw the number of live sheep exported by sea fall by 80 per cent in the life of the last government with not a cent of assistance being provided by that government to assist this industry to transition. In contrast, this government listened to the words of the industry when it said that it needs support to make this transition—

Opposition senators interjecting—