Bill Heffernan (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Sorry, Mr Acting Deputy President. I get pretty stirred up about this stuff. What we should be doing is considering ways of value-adding, as Senator Eggleston and Senator Macdonald said, not only to agriculture but also to complement downstream value-adding to the mining industry. Why haven't we got a urea plant coming out of the gas industry in Northern Australia? I don't know. Why haven't we got a phosphate plant? Why haven't we joined up Mount Isa to the north-south railway line to make that happen?