Over the last couple of months, Labor has completely botched the Working Holiday Maker program. First they delayed and now they're set to deny. Labor's ballot system for our second- and third-year working holiday-makers is having significant implications for regional Australia. This one has hit my own family farm. We had a European backpacker set to come last week. Disappointingly, we had to tell him not to board his flight—and that was at his expense.

That story is the same right across the sector. GrainGrowers says working holiday-makers make up 31 per cent of the grain industry workforce. Another farming family in my electorate wrote to me. In their words, 'It's been stressful playing the waiting game, not having clear information to work with, and feeling like we've settled for the next best option.' A coalition government will reverse Labor's backpacker cap, reverse their ballot system and start making policy decisions for regional Australia, not against it.

It is not only Canberra. In South Australia, Labor is rezoning more than 7,000 hectares of protected farmland around Adelaide for housing. Across the state, prime agricultural land is going to wind turbines, solar panels and transmission lines. According to Labor, only seven per cent of South Australia is considered prime agricultural land—seven per cent! Once farmland is built on, it never comes back. We can always build more houses. We cannot make more farmland. I've had young farmers call me in real distress, some even suicidal, because of this. Farmers do not ask for much. They just want government to get out of the way. They want fuel that they can afford, workers to bring in the crop and a government that backs them, instead of taxing them. Under Labor, they are getting none of it.