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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:47): Supplementary: can the minister outline to the chamber what 'CA' means?

The PRESIDENT: I didn't—

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI: CA38, CA39—compliance.

The PRESIDENT: I didn't hear any reference to CA in the original answer.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:47): The honourable member doesn't like the answer to the question. She asked, 'Will the government subsidise the testing?' and my answer has been that the government won't charge growers for the testing; not a subsidisation, it simply will not charge them. She doesn't like that answer, so she wants to try for some sort of little gotcha moment.

The PRESIDENT: I call the Hon. Mr Martin.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: Perhaps the honourable member would like to actually consider that biosecurity is important to our industries, it is important to our growers.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! Order!

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: What we have seen from the honourable Leader of the Opposition in this place on multiple occasions is that she wants to take a political lens, she wants to take political opportunism. She turns up to a meeting of growers last week, a meeting that was designed to allow growers to ask questions, and she and the member for Frome decide that, no, this is not time for growers to ask questions; this is time for them to grandstand politically—for the Leader of the Opposition in this place and the member for Frome to grandstand politically.

Perhaps if she was responsible she would see biosecurity as something that should be bipartisan, that should have the interests of industry—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: —that should have the interests of industry, but no, political opportunism is more important to those opposite and to the Leader of the Opposition in this place than biosecurity and our industry.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: No, no. Order!

An honourable member interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Yes, seriously.

The Hon. R.P. Wortley: You don't care about the regions. Total opportunists; that's what you are.

The PRESIDENT: And you, enough.

The Hon. N.J. Centofanti interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! Right. Any further, and I am going to name you. I have called the Hon. Mr Martin four times now.

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