Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Beef Roads program, I am very excited to say, is an innovative way of delivering these investments. We have used the CSIRO to investigate how different investments across our country can bring down costs for the beef sector. The CSIRO have now looked at 60 different projects that have been put forward by industry and some of those projects would see costs reduce by $5 a head. One of those projects is very close to my heart, which is an investment at Rockhampton to remove the current requirement to decouple trucks at Gracemere. A couple of years ago, as some senators would know, there was a tragic incident at Gracemere where Bryson Mayne was killed while cross-loading cattle. This investment alone will save $700,000 a year and, more importantly, improve safety at Gracemere, and help avoid tragic incidents like that in the future.