Senate debates
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Questions without Notice
Live Animal Exports: Sheep
2:07 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source
I would invite the senator to look at the work we did to reopen China as an export market for our barley exporters. I would ask the senator to consider—and I would say to the sector—that we have had live cattle exports grow by 54 per cent and exports of beef to Indonesia hit a record high in 2022-23. I would remind those opposite that we have seen, under the work this government has done, increases in the exports of wine. We have seen some $20 billion of impediments that were in place under you when we came to government, which primarily affected some of the sectors that were included in your question, and seen that the trade impediments have been removed from all of those sectors other than $1 billion worth as at the time of those impediments being imposed. So we have been doing work to— (Time expired)
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