Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Families and Payments) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister. I just want to go to the objectives of the agreement. The agreement aims to: assist farm families and primary producers adapt to and prepare for the impacts of increased climate variability; encourage farm families and primary producers to adopt self-reliant approaches to manage their business risks; ensure farm families in hardship have access to a household support payment that recognises the special positions of farms; ensure social support services are accessible to farm families; and provide a framework for a jurisdiction's response to needs during periods of drought. My question to the minster is: can the government provide detail to the chamber as to how the farm concessional loans will be administered and will any of those functions be outsourced?