Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

It goes to show you how these trade agreements have real effect in the money our nation earns. Likewise, with cherries, even from Tasmania: $69,000 before the free trade agreement, for six months, to $3.5 million—another example. And table grapes: we know we grow them around the Swan Valley in Western Australia, and we have an immense increase in our exports. In fact, our exports into Korea have gone from nothing to over $2 million. And wine is a big industry for Western Australia, in the regions around Margaret River. Under the Korean free trade agreement that has gone from $4.6 million in the six months to June 2014 to $8.9 million in the six months to June 2015. What we have done with the Japanese free trade agreement is similar, going from $685 million for the six months to June 2014 in beef to just shy of $900 million.

We can see that to grow our economy, to give people jobs, to bring a better return through the farm gate we have to listen to people who actually know about business, listen to people such as Premier Jay Weatherill, listen to people such as Annastacia Palaszczuk, listen to people such as the Premier of Victoria and stop listening to people such as the progenitor of the BLF, the CFMEU. We have to realise that if we truly believe that we are right for this nation then we must stand behind jobs for Western Australians.

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