Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

The farm household allowance was created with strong bipartisan support. In fact, it was actually an initiative of the Labor Party, although they only established FHA for three years in any given lifetime of a farmer. Since its introduction in 2014, over $350 million in FHA payments have been made to over 12½ thousand farmers going through financial hardship and their partners. On 10 September our government announced an independent review into the farm household allowance, and our response is being enacted on receiving that review. We'll be passing legislation through this place in coming weeks and months to ensure that our farmers have that radical simplification of the farm household allowance that they've been calling for, including a simplified asset test, including changing the time limit from four years in total to four in 10 years— (Time expired)