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

I thank Senator Birmingham for his question. We start the process with one of the finest resources ministers we've ever had.

Senator Cash, you ought to at least appreciate that, for the first time in our history, we have a resources minister from your home state. We've got one of the finest people, with one of the finest minds—

Here we have a fantastic female resources minister from Western Australia. All I'm saying is in answer to your question about what we are doing about—

An honourable senator interjecting

Is it the first time from Western Australia? I don't know about the first time, but she's a very fine female resources minister. So we start our process with this woman. Then we look around the country for where is the best, largest, most successful uranium expansion. It comes from your home state of South Australia, Senator Birmingham.

It does produce good wine. That's true. We got a lot of that wine back into China just recently, Senator Watt. But you are distracting me. We start with a great resources minister and a state with a wonderful resource in the far north of South Australia— (Time expired)