Senate debates

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Questions without Notice

Film Industry

2:40 pm

Photo of Mitch FifieldMitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

What small businesses are doing all around the country is making our economy stronger and what we're doing as a government is backing in those small and medium sized businesses. We want their taxes to be lowered; we are lowering their taxes. In a very practical sense, that's what the location incentive is. These two productions will use the services of over 1,600 Australian businesses, as well as directly employing more than 1,300 Australians. There are also 5,500 room nights in commercial accommodation in just one of the productions alone. We've got our great landscape, which will encourage tourism, and our talented industry, which is something that those who produce these works overseas are very keen to avail themselves of.

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