Andrew Broad (Mallee, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Instant asset write-off. The great vision to move from $60 billion worth of agricultural exports to $100 billion worth of agricultural exports doesn't just happen. You actually build the water infrastructure, you build the rail infrastructure to get it to port and you build the market opportunities—Korea, China, Japan and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. They reckon they're eventually going to take a million tonnes of Australian wheat to Peru. I've got to say, it doesn't just happen. In contrast to the person who I had great hopes for as the alternative ag minister, who was on the right faction and is now in the left faction—he wants to ban it, tax it, shut it down.

Can the minister outline what the coalition government is doing to support agricultural exports, including addressing non-tariff measures for trading partners, so that industry can take up the opportunities of the free trade agreements?

Not only do you need a free trade agreement; you need to have people over in those potential markets who are working with the people who are producing the product, working with the exporters who are taking the product, and ensuring that those products can make their way to market. The great contrast in this—and this is why I am very supportive of asking you this question—is that you appear to have a vision. You appear to have the process to turn $60 billion worth of exports into $100 billion worth of exports—as opposed to the alternative minister, who wants to ban it, tax it and shut it down.

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