‘I’ve had a gutful’: Jacqui Lambie says salmon industry should get out of Macquarie Harbour
by Paddy Manning from on (#6VNM6)
Tasmanian senator says she is pro-salmon' but the farms should move on to land or offshore
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Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has called on Tasmania's salmon industry to stop farming in Macquarie Harbour on the state's remote west coast, marking a dramatic intervention into a polarised debate with implications for the federal election.
Macquarie Harbour has been a very hot, hot spud when it comes to the salmon industry for many, many years," Senator Lambie told the Tasmanian Inquirer, and it's getting worse."
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Go and put them on land. Go and put your fish somewhere else. I've had a gutful. You've made more than enough money off the arse of Tasmania. Move it on."
Senator Jacqui Lambie
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