Mr PASIN (Barker) (16:05): I want to reflect on the contribution the member for Paterson has just made. It must be a frustration for her to be sitting on the backbench. She quite frankly should be on the frontbench, but of course her attitudes to many of those things don't accord with those of the Prime Minister. She's more Fitzroy River than she is Fitzroy, and that's the problem here in this debate. I do want to address contribution from the member for Bendigo. I think she was kind of critical of the number of people who came all the way to Canberra to protest. I mean, I've got constituents up there. They've driven for two days, and, unlike those at the rallies that the member for Bendigo used to organise, the people up there aren't being paid to come here to represent the interests of their community. When the member for Bendigo was an organiser for United Voice every single one of those people who turned up to protest was on the pay. So I don't think those opposite should be critical of people coming here and expressing their objection to the policies of those opposite, particularly when those opposite are led by a man so weak, so gutless that he wouldn't even walk out the front of the building and confront these constituents. Now, talk about someone who is more focused on Fitzroy than he is on Fitzroy River. Those opposite are led by exactly that person. Now the reality here is this: the Australian live sheep export industry provides the best animal welfare standards anywhere in the world. We not only export sheep; we export animal welfare standards. What those opposite don't understand is that Western Australia producers cannot produce an animal that has the characteristics that processors want and that consumers want. You're effectively saying to these producers that they don't have a future. Ms Lawrence interjecting— Mr PASIN: The member for Hasluck is welcome to contribute. But the bigger issue is this: this industry, to those opposite—and the member for Paterson knows this—has done every single thing the government has asked it to do, and yet it has been banned. Mark Peuker, up there in the gallery, all the way from Mount Gambier, is a beef producer. He is thinking, 'Am I next?' Ms Lawrence interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mrs Andrews ): Order. The member for Hasluck— Mr PASIN: 'I've done everything I can.' Ms Lawrence interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member for Hasluck will cease interjecting. I call the member for Barker. Mr PASIN: He's thinking, 'Am I next?' He's living in an electorate where he has watched a government make life very difficult. Mr Repacholi: Scare tactics. Mr PASIN: No. If those opposite want to talk about scare tactics, they gave us 'Mediscare'. Mr Repacholi: Scare tactics. Mr PASIN: Oh, please. This isn't a scare tactic; this is real. Go to Western Australia and talk to a Western Australian sheep producer and ask him if it's a scare campaign. It's not, mate. It's a bill that has become law, which means their business doesn't exist anymore. I don't know why those opposite hate farmers so much. You've ruled out an industry. You've rubbed it out. And while I'm talking about rubbing out food production let's talk about the Murray-Darling Basin. Those opposite want to take water from the basin, from farmers—intergenerational farmers—and take their water rights away. The Riverland in my electorate is a highly productive horticultural zone but without water it is a desert. Those opposite are going to take the equivalent of all of South Australia's water entitlement away. In the South Australian context, many people think South Australia won't have to make a contribution. That's not true. South Australia will have to make a contribution. It is best estimated at 32 gigs. That is the size of the Renmark irrigation district. That would be like saying to every horticultural producer, every almond producer, everyone growing an orange, mandarin, an apricot, in the Renmark irrigation district, 'We are going to rub you out, just like we rubbed out West Australian sheep producers.' Those opposite can call it a scare campaign all they want. The people of Western Australia call it something else: real.