Bring Dead Salmon, Australian Senator Protests Livestock Bill That Threatens The Environment

JAKARTA - An Australian senator brought a large fish that had died in parliament to protest the law proposed by the government that would protect salmon farms in water areas registered as cultural heritage in the state of Tasmania.

The bill is being discussed by the Senate, which is expected to be passed in the final days of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's administration ahead of the general elections to be held in May.

Criticizing the bill during a parliamentary question and answer session on Wednesday, March 26, Green Party senator Sarah Hanson-Young accused the government of destroying' environmental protection to support the poisonous and polluting salmon industry

He took out a whole dead salmon in a plastic bag while asking Labor Party senator Jenny McAllister, who represented the Minister of Environment.

"Towards election night, have you sold all of your environmental credibility for the sake of a rotten salmon and an almost extinct odor?" Sarah said.

After a commotion and Senate president Sue Lines asked Hanson-Young to get rid of salmon.

While McAllister replied: "In my opinion, Australians deserve better than their public representatives than just acrobatic acts".

The proposed law will guarantee salmon cultivation at Macquarie Port which is listed as a world heritage on Tasmania's west coast and reduce people's ability to oppose approval.

The Albanese Labor Party has confirmed that the bill is needed to protect jobs in the Tasmania salmon farm industry.

However, environmental groups and the Greens are concerned about the pollution of nutrients and chemicals caused by the industry, and its impact on marine wildlife including rare Maugean rays, which are only found at Macquarie and Bathurst Ports in Tasmania.