Speeches & transcripts

Address to the CropLife Agricultural Industry Federal Budget Breakfast, National Press Club

The Agricultural Workforce Working Group (the Working Group) met for the first time on 21 October 2022.

Address to the Australian Farm Institute Roundtable on Cultivating ESG Capability

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.