Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

This type of growth isn't just about the headline statistics and what is created, as wonderful as those statistics are; it's about what it means for individual companies—individual companies like Superbee Honey Factory in Forbes in New South Wales, which is Senator Molan's home state, who have seen significant growth in their honey exports to North Asia; Fletcher International Exports in Dubbo, whose exports of lamb and sheep meat to Korea have increased by over 30 per cent; and citrus grower Gunnible Pastoral Company in Gunnedah, which has seen, within two years, orange exports to China tripling. Of course, all of those individual businesses are then inspired and have the opportunity to employ more Australians. There is more job security for those individual Australians and more opportunities in those rural communities. That's why we now see 2.2 million Australians employed because of these trade policy successes.