John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I refer to the government’s decision to abolish the 40 per cent rebate on quarantine export services and to increase fees to exporters by up to 1,352 per cent. Given that Australia’s competitors do not impose full cost recovery on their meat, fish, horticulture and seed exporters, can the minister say how many of Australia’s 50,000 meat workers can expect to join the Rudd redundancy queue as a result of this new tax on exports?

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