Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Australian products, such as beef from the member for Flynn's electorate, as well as wine, rice, sheep meat, cheese, sugar and a range of other commodities will have greater access to the lucrative UK market.

Australia, as I say, has always been a trading nation. We produce substantially more food than we can consume domestically. Australia presently has 15 FTAs in force. Nine of those FTAs have come into being since 2013, and we've a further eight FTAs under negotiation or about to commence. I say, 'Well done,' to the trade minister for what he has been able to do—along with the Prime Minister and a whole host of other ministers and government departmental officials—to clinch this historic deal.

An opposition member interjecting—

Yes, Dave, the minister for agriculture! What a great job he's doing! His electorate of Maranoa, as large it as it is, is going to benefit, along with the electorate of the member for Flynn and every other regional member. Indeed, every one of the 151 members who sit in this House is going to benefit from the Australia-UK FTA. This financial year, $47 billion worth of our agricultural products will be exported around the world, and that's to get a whole lot bigger, right now, thanks to this deal.

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