Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

He fishes the waters off Flinders Island. Karl said: 'Our crays are now in hot demand in both countries, with tariffs at 20 per cent going to zero, ensuring enduring price gains for years and years.'

Of course, the member for Bass has also been one of the great advocates for the irrigation projects in Tasmania, including of a shovel-ready project in Scottsdale, which I happened to visit a couple of years ago with the now member for Bass. Scottsdale is a former great town in the north-east. A few years ago, an earlier Labor government closed three timber mills by closing down forestry in Scottsdale. They killed jobs and they killed growth in that area. We are breathing life back into those jobs and that place. We are supporting irrigation projects—

Ms Chesters interjecting—

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