Speeches & transcripts

Interview with Virginia Trioli, ABC Melbourne Mornings on flooding, the financial support available; flood plains 

Interview with Matt Cunningham, Sky News on Update on floods; biosecurity; $4M Northern Australia Coordination Network; National Lumpy Skin Action Plan; methane pledge; foot and mouth disease

Interview with Katie Woolf, MIX 104.9 Darwin on $4M Northern Australia Coordination Network; National Lumpy Skin Action Plan; foot and mouth disease; biosecurity; floods update; cyclone risks for Darwin; National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre

Doorstop at Parliament House, Darwin on Biosecurity; $4M Northern Australia Coordination Network; National Lumpy Skin Action Plan; methane pledge; cooperation with industry; foot and mouth disease; 20th anniversary Bali bombings; banana freckle

Interview with Patricia Karvelas, ABC RN Breakfast on flood conditions in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania; methane pledge

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.