House debates

Thursday, 7 September 2017

Questions without Notice

Exports

2:30 pm

Photo of Steven CioboSteven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

and the Winemakers' Federation has reinforced us. They have said:

Recent increases to price are severely impacting on wine and grape businesses viability and our ability to compete on a global market.

That's what the wine industry has said. If we want to keep exporting premium wines, or even if we want to export cleanskins, reliable energy is crucial.

Speaking of cleanskins, I came across a pretty interesting article about cleanskins recently in The Sydney Morning Herald. It was titled 'Cleanskin who can renew Labor', and I thought, 'This is going to be a fascinating article.' It turns out that the cleanskin who can renew Labor is the member for Blaxland. I'm a big fan of the member for Blaxland, although I'm not as big a fan as the member for Lindsay. I thought, 'Well, perhaps he's got a shot at the title.' In this article, the member for Blaxland says:

I'm not interested in being prime minister. Really, the dream job for me is to one day be education minister …

The member for Sydney is not here, so maybe there's a chance for him to be shadow education minister. But I want to give the member for Blaxland one piece of advice: if he wants the top job, he'll have to be very careful, because we've seen that the member for Grayndler is willing to shoulder people out the way to get up there. I suggest he just bides his time.

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