Andrew Gee (Calare, National Party, Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education) Share this | Hansard source

We've got the policies to drive investment and production in the bush. Take our securing raw materials program, which has $35 million. It's to get firms to move from the cities to the bush, to set up where their supply chains are and to secure those supply chains, with grants up to $5 million, if they bring the jobs with them. We're securing the supply chains and driving growth and investment in the bush.

With the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, we've just launched our $6 million Regional Cooperative Research Centre project initiative, which will support research projects in regional Australia. Doug did it before, and we're doing it now. We're driving growth, investment and prosperity in country Australia. We say, 'Come and join us'— (Time expired)

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