Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Maranoa for his question. The member for Maranoa represents an area that generates significant quantities of cotton exports out of Australia. One of the issues that is most important to the cotton industry is a reliable supply of and access to water. Just to give you an idea of the importance of the export industry that they have grown, this year they have topped $1.1 billion worth of exports of cotton out of Australia. Cotton is now Australia’s seventh-largest agricultural export—

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