Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Skills and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall on 9 March. The largest contributor to GDP in my electorate is agriculture. We grow and produce the vegetables that end up on Australians' plates. I want to acknowledge a gentleman, a grower, by the name of Troy Huggins. Troy had a farm. He still has a farm. He had paid all his input costs and was just about ready to harvest. He had paid for his seedlings, he had paid for his fuel, he had paid for his labour and he had paid his machinery payments. His bank was waiting for the yield of that crop. Mother Nature put it three feet underwater. He was devastated, along with many other growers in our electorate.

I have been fighting hard for Troy and growers in my electorate to get assistance upgraded from category C to category D. All that means is that there's assistance available from $25,000 to $75,000 for those that are affected. I will always come into this place and acknowledge those who have done good things. I want to acknowledge the work of Minister McBain who worked with my office and, previous to that, Minister McAllister who worked with me to get the upgrade that my farmers needed. (Time expired)

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