Senator IAN CAMPBELL (Minister for the Environment and Heritage) (3:59 PM) —by leave—All of those points made by Senator Forshaw would normally be quite accurate. My old friend Senator Winston Crane indeed had a superb record for ensuring that agriculture bills were scrutinised by the stakeholders in the industry. But, for the record, can I say, firstly, that the Manager of Opposition Business was informed this morning that we would not be agreeing with this reference, and I would have presumed that he would have told his whip. Secondly, this issue of the structure of the live export trade in Australia and the levy system for funding it was comprehensively dealt with by this very same committee. Of course, Senator Forshaw very conveniently decided to ignore that entirely. The fact is that these issues—the live sheep trade, the live animal trade, the structure of the industry post the Cormo Express incident and the public concern about the welfare of the animals—have been comprehensively dealt with by a Senate committee, so the Senate committee has performed its duty. To then take this issue back and yet again delay it shows that my assertion that this is a delaying tactic that will hurt the industry is, in fact, correct.

Question negatived.

Original question agreed to.