Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee (part 2 of 3)
27 May 2026
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Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:51
Speaker 7
For us, in the context of the Middle East crisis has been about, the foundational needs of the sector, which has been about securing fuel supplies and fertilizer supplies. So that... That's been our key focus in the first instance. Certainly, at the start of the conflict, it was quite unclear whether Australia's agriculture sector had a key window between the sort of the May and and June planting, window. We're able to...
Would be able to secure sufficient, quantities of urea. So the focus through the work of, ourselves, DFAT, Department of Industry, has been on identifying alternative sources and then working on the... Working with Export Finance Australia with the the fertilizer security facility as well.
00:51 - 00:51
And I
00:51 - 01:07
Speaker 63
think, senator, as you probably expect, we are watching some of the key metrics, you know, talking to banks, other things about use of over... Overdrafts and other things that may indicate, signs of distress, and, we'll keep doing that as we go through the the... Hopefully, until this crisis ends.
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