Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

I do make my remarks directly relevant, as you rightly counselled me, Mr Speaker, to the excellent amendment moved by the member for Kennedy, which goes to the specific and distinctive characteristics of farming enterprises and of enterprises in regional and remote Australia more broadly. His amendment covers both farming enterprises and businesses in regional, rural and remote Australia. Again, we know that businesses in regional, rural and remote Australia have characteristics that make them different to businesses in metropolitan Australia. Supply chains are longer and more uncertain. A flood can knock out supplies for weeks. Power can be less reliable. And there's a requirement in any—

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