Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Some of those Queenslanders will be monarchists. Prior to the Albanese government implementing Australia's trade agreement with the UK, Australian sugar exports faced extremely high import tariffs. The former coalition government let the industry down by failing to implement an agreement with the United Kingdom, but industry could rely on the Albanese government to clean up the mess that we had been left, and we didn't let them down. We prioritised the trade deal with our close trading partner and friend the United Kingdom. The first shipment of tariff-free sugar to the UK market last week is proof that the trade agreement is delivering real, practical benefits for Australian farmers and workers like those heralding from the great state of Queensland and represented by the Queensland Cane Growers Organisation, who I met with yesterday. But the Senate can be assured that the Australian sugar industry isn't the only industry— (Time expired)