Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Well, you might not think they do the work but have you actually been on a farm? We have to make sure we give the capacity and outline the capacity for a greater return to come back. In some instances, this might be by reaching further down the production chain and by the utilisation of cooperatives. In some instances, it requires infrastructure of government. I would like to thank the Deputy Prime Minister for the marvellous work he has done—the $300 million that he has put on the table for the inland rail.

I would also like to state that we have already started on our dams process, where another $15.9 million went on the table for the GABSI scheme; we have actually started Chaffey Dam and have started the Menindee storage lakes; we are building dams and are going to build more; we have actually opened up markets to Bahrain; we have actually opened up markets to Cambodia; after four decades, we have opened up markets to Iran; we have actually opened up markets to Egypt. But we have more to do. This is a document that I ask the Australian people to go over and to also make sure that they are a part of—as we head towards a white paper. We know that the white paper becomes policy, and that becomes the future of our nation. That is how the member for Forrest, and for Kim and for Kylie, get a future on the land.

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