The Coalition has cut short debate on the future drought fund after Labor claimed its legislative haste is designed to wedge the opposition and not help farmers.

The manager of opposition business Tony Burke accused the government of pushing ahead with plans to create the $5bn fund with money redirected from the Building Australia Fund – which Labor opposes – despite MPs not even having a chance to read the legislation.

The hardball approach on drought funding comes as the agriculture minister David Littleproud accused the states of doing “bugger all” to stop animal activists invading farms, preparing the way for new federal penalties.

While Labor has offered support for the drought fund, provided it is not taken from infrastructure or other portfolios, it has questioned whether the commonwealth is overstepping the mark with trespass laws that may produce unintended consequences for journalists and whistleblowers.

On Monday evening Littleproud successfully moved to suspend standing orders to pass the drought fund bill in one day “without delay at any stage”.

Burke moved a motion noting that drought funding is not due to be paid until July 2020 and calling on the government to adjourn the debate until Tuesday so the opposition could consider it in caucus, but Labor was outvoted.

Burke told the house the government’s haste “will make no difference at all to the timing of drought assistance” and warned that Labor was forced to object or it would become “standard practice for legislation to be rushed through without being read”.

The Morrison government will also introduce tough new penalties for activists who incite destructive break-ins, including up to five years in prison this week.

New South Wales is already preparing to introduce Australia’s toughest laws against activists who illegally enter farmers’ properties.

“Sadly, our state governments have done bugger all,” Littleproud told ABC radio on Monday.

“Those that provide the information to those perpetrators are just as guilty, in terms of infringing the rights of Australian farmers, as those that walked on that farm.”

The opposition supports the intention of the bill – to protect farmers from trespassers – but is worried it may have unintended consequences.

Labor’s agriculture spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon, is concerned the laws could affect journalists, whistleblowers and farmers opposed to issues like coal seam gas.

“If Channel Nine runs a video on its website and the story somehow inadvertently incites a trespass are they exempt under this bill? They are not,” he told ABC radio.

“We will allow the carriage service laws to be beefed up as long as the bill as drafted doesn’t produce a number of unintended consequences and does not unnecessarily make the law more complex.”

The opposition believes there is also significant overlap between the bill and existing state laws. “This is almost entirely in the jurisdiction of the states and you see the states are beefing up their trespass laws,” Fitzgibbon said.

The NSW deputy premier, John Barilaro, announced on Monday trespassers will be hit with fines of up to $220,000 per person and $440,000 for corporations from 1 August.

“Vigilantes who are entering our farmers’ property illegally are nothing short of domestic terrorists – our farmers have had a gutful,” Barilaro said.

“They don’t deserve, nor have time, to be dealing with illegal trespass and vile harassment from a bunch of virtue-signalling thugs.”

He added further legislation is being looked at including potential jail time.