Speeches & transcripts

Press conference in Launceston with CEO Andrew Walker, Brian Mitchell and Janie Finlay discussing the agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries in Hobart, the salmon industry, Deloraine Racecourse, foot-and-mouth disease and stage three tax cuts

Press conference in Hobart, Tasmania on Tasmanian agriculture and aquaculture sector, Budget; potential east coast flooding, Threatened Species Action Plan, Tasmanian AFL team.

Interview with Laura Jayes about foot and mouth disease.

Interview with Libby Price, Country Today about agriculture benefits from Jobs & Skills Summit, migration increases, fast-tracking visa applications, more fee free TAFE places, good conditions for workers and ABARES’ record-high ag exports

Interview with Kieran Gilbert, Sky News about the Jobs and Skills Summit, enterprise agreements, ministerial code, plan to grow the agricultural workforce and the tripartite agriculture working group, and visas.

Doorstop at the Job & Skills Summit on agriculture tripartite working group, collaboration at the Jobs and Skills Summit, agricultural workforce; visas and free TAFE places.

Interview with Paul Culliver, ABC Capricornia on the Jobs and Skills Summit, Drought Grants, Greens’ Proposal for an Energy Transition Authority. 

Interview with Sally Rope, ABC Gold Coast on biosecurity risks and outbreaks, white spot disease and the Jobs and Skills Summit

Interview with Tom Connell, Sky News about foot-and-mouth disease and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Press conference in the Lockyear Valley on floods; Disaster Ready Fund; fast-tracking disaster funding; Special Envoy for Disaster Recovery; foot and mouth disease taskforce; focus on biosecurity; fireweed.