Barnaby Joyce is pretty happy Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's video apology for breaching Australia's biosecurity laws has gone viral.
The celebrity couple's stilted apology follows Heard's failure to tell customs about the arrival of pet dogs Pistol and Boo on the Gold Coast where Depp was filming a Pirates of the Caribbean movie last year.
She got off with a one-month good behaviour bond in a Gold Coast court on Monday - and the video was quickly posted on the agriculture minister's Facebook page.
Mr Joyce, who made headlines last year when he said the dogs better "bugger off" back to the US or he'd have them put down, says the video has turned into a global education tool.
"They have to understand that we have strong laws... and people who take our laws as a little of an inconvenience, end up with themselves in court," he told Seven's Sunrise on Tuesday.
"All around the world this is going now and people know when they come into our nation,(they have to) obey our laws."
He couldn't resist a jab at the actors' wooden delivery in the "atrocious video".
"Do it again, Johnny, do it with gusto, come on, mate. Rise to the camera, old trout. Rise to the camera," he joked.
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