1. 10 April 2015
The Hon Jaala Pulford MP
Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Regional Development
8 Nicholson Street
East Melbourne VIC 3002
Dear Ms Pulford,
Submission – Review of DEDJTR Regional Service Delivery Model and Strategic
Directions for Regional Policy
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to your Government’s ‘Review of DEDJTR
Regional Service Delivery Model and Strategic Directions for Regional Policy’.
Please find enclosed Mildura Development Corporation (MDC)’s submission.
MDC is an independent not-for-profit organisation which is the peak economic
development body for the Mildura region. The Mildura region covers an area over
48,000 square metres in size with a population of nearly 60,000 and a Gross Regional
Product per annum of over $3 billion.
MDC’s vision is ‘Our Region. Our Prosperity’ and our mission is to ‘actively develop,
grow and promote the Mildura region’. Our organisation has been proactive in
marketing the Mildura region to the world and in attracting diversified infrastructure
funding, investment and business development opportunities. Our Board is comprised
of experienced business and industry leaders who understand the commercial realities
of development in the Mildura region.
The Mildura region’s local economy, situated at the heart of the Murray Darling Basin,
is dominated by the horticultural and dryland agricultural sectors, which, along with
manufacturing (particularly in the food, wine and beverage sector) and other key
economic drivers contribute greatly to our economic output.
We look forward to further action being taken by the Victorian Government to enhance
regional development across Victoria, including in the Mildura region.
Yours sincerely,
Chris Crewther
Chief Executive Officer
Mildura Development Corporation

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Submission – Review of DEDJTR Regional Service Delivery
Model and Strategic Directions for Regional Policy
Introduction
Mildura Development Corporation (MDC) supports the Victorian Government’s goal to
drive sustainable economic growth in rural and regional Victoria, including in the
Mildura region.
To provide some initial background, the Mildura region is located in the heart of the
Murray Valley in a tri-state area at the intersection of Victoria, New South Wales and
South Australia, encompassing the junction of the Murray and Darling River systems.
Food production is one of the key drivers of the Mildura region’s economy, along with
associated manufacturing, and will continue to form an important part of its future,
generating a large proportion of its $3 billion Gross Regional Product per annum.
A range of food processors are located in the Mildura region, providing considerable
employment opportunities and skill sets. These include, but are not limited to, award
winning wineries, table grape production and packing, dried fruit processing and
packing, beverage production, citrus production and packing, olive processing,
almond processing, and other boutique food processing sectors.
As a major export region, we are in a good position to respond to increasing demands
from Asia, particularly from our three largest export partners – Japan, China and South
Korea – with whom the Federal Government has also recently signed free trade
agreements. However, we also note that the production of high-quality, clean and
green products requires a high value return for profitability. It is only with profitability
that our local industry sectors and food processors can continue to re-invest in
innovation, productivity and increased production.
The Mildura region itself is home to a number of established and new horticultural
industry sectors, growing the following percentages of Australia’s produce:
 98% of Australia’s dried vine fruit;
 75% of Australia’s table grapes of which 64% are exported;
 68% of Australia’s almonds;
 48% of Australia’s pistachios;
 24% of Australia’s citrus of which 44% is exported;
 23% of Australia’s olives;
 14% of Australia’s asparagus;
 Over 13% of Australia’s carrots and growing; and
 more than 60 types of fruit, vegetables and nut products.
Known as a major irrigation region across north-west of Victoria, water security is a
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Dryland farming and livestock also contribute significantly to the Mildura region’s
economy, with sheep, grain and cattle contributing over $140.7 million in output. The
region also produces over 1 million tonnes of grain, or over 2.1% of Australia’s
broadacre crops.
To achieve prosperity in rural and regional communities, all industry sectors must not
only be innovative but must also be well connected with high-quality infrastructure and
services, and access to human capital, including education and training.
To ensure competiveness in Australia, businesses must be able to develop quality
products that the market is willing to pay high value for. This will provide significant
advantages, including profitability.
This submission looks a four items in relation to regional policy development, with an
accompanying A-Z of recommendations:
1. Growing Regional Victoria – A Decentralisation Agenda
2. Regional Services Delivery Model
3. Legislative, Regulatory and Policy Framework
4. Investment Attraction and Business Development.
1. Growing Regional Victoria – A Decentralisation Agenda
a) The background
In order to decentralise and grow regional Victoria we need to build connectivity
infrastructure and services that create a competitive environment which encourages
industry to choose to move to, and expand in, regional centres. When industry
chooses to set up or expand in a region, they act as an economic driver bringing new
funds to a region. Employment opportunities follow and from there people move to,
and stay in, that region, drive secondary industries (such as retail), and encourage
increased services (e.g. specialist health care) due to increased demand.
Proper decentralisation requires long-term vision which ignores political cycles (which
often results in investment in infrastructure driven by political instead of economic
imperatives) and short-term thinking.
Often what we have seen over many decades now in regional Victoria is much greater
investment in connectivity infrastructure in Melbourne, primarily, and then, secondly,
in the largest regional centres. When this occurs, industry often chooses to set up
where they have access to infrastructure (e.g. easy and quick access to the port,
access to natural gas, etc) and where it is therefore more economically viable to run
their business. This is common not only in Victoria but in other Australian States and
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Victoria and Australia, with Australia now being one of the most urbanised countries
in the world, with over 85% of the Australian population living in urban centres.
Concurrently, we have generally seen a population decline starting with many of the
smallest regional towns upwards, as industries and people move to larger and larger
centres and cities where that connectivity infrastructure is in place and growing in
relative comparison.
Meanwhile, the population numbers of many larger regional centres have been
buffered and stabilised by the fact that while many of their own citizens have moved
to larger cities and larger regional centres, citizens from the smaller towns have moved
to these very regional centres. As those smaller towns decrease further in size though,
we cannot expect that buffering effect to continue. Thus, without continued long-term
infrastructure investment to attract and grow local industry and population numbers in
regional centres, we can also expect those centres to similarly stabilise or decline in
population over time. We can also expect to see increased urbanisation as people
continue to move to the largest cities and largest centres.
That is, without infrastructure investment in regional Victoria, we will see continued
decline in the smallest towns upwards and continued high-pressured growth in the
largest centres (such as Melbourne) downwards. This centralisation will continue to
put pressure on urban infrastructure and lead to further economic and social issues.
If such short-term thinking with centralised infrastructure investment had been in place
100 years ago, where there was a much lower population in regional Victoria, the
investment in infrastructure in rail and roads connecting regional Victoria and driving
decentralisation and the creation of many regional towns to begin with, would never
had occurred. However, long-term thinking was in place at that time and that
infrastructure was put in place and developed to create decentralisation, thus driving
industries to set up in regional centres and towns and therefore driving increased
population numbers in regional centres and towns. For example, towns like Ouyen
were established on the back on the rail line (connectivity infrastructure) being
established between Mildura and Melbourne and the associated Ouyen railway station
being built.
b) Driving Regional Growth –The 10 Regional Centres
To similarly drive regional development that grows and activates our regional centres
and surrounding towns, we therefore need to have a focussed and dedicated
Decentralisation Agenda that invests heavily in connectivity infrastructure that drives
industries to set up and expand in regional Victoria. By doing do, this Decentralisation
Agenda will grow regional populations and services, and increase both economic and
social outcomes in the regions.
This Decentralisation Agenda ideally needs to be implemented not only in Victoria but
in each State and Territory and Australia as a whole. Comparatively, for example,
countries like Germany, South Korea and Japan have realised the importance of
connectivity infrastructure and their governments have invested heavily in this, often

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being world leaders, which has helped to then drive industry growth in their countries
(particularly in sectors like manufacturing), as well as decentralisation between a
number of metropolitan and regional centres.
In Victoria, one example of this recent investment in connectivity infrastructure driving
decentralisation is Bendigo. Following increased investment by government in
infrastructure such as rail, hospitals, education and highways, Bendigo has seen a
recent boom in its population growth, as industries and people move to where the
infrastructure and services are available.
It is such connectivity infrastructure and services that need to be looked at for each of
the regional centres across Victoria, creating and growing nodes (hubs) that drive
investment in those regions.
Looking at solutions, the Victorian Government firstly needs to establish a well-funded
Decentralisation Agenda. As a first step under this Agenda, the Government should
facilitate and strongly fund a benchmark comparative assessment of the connectivity
infrastructure available in the ten regional centres making up Regional Cities Victoria
– Geelong, Shepparton, La Trobe, Wangaratta, Ballarat, Bendigo, Horsham, Mildura,
Warrnambool and Wodonga. This is not a new concept. The need to undertake a
benchmark comparison has already been noted in Regional Cities Victoria’s
discussion about implementing a Diagnostics Tool in their Executive Summary:
Regional Cities Victoria Growth Framework.
This benchmark comparative assessment should measure the availability of
connectivity infrastructure and services across each of those 10 regional centres. After
analysis, each of these centres should be increased to the same standard as the
regional centre with the highest benchmark where possible. Concurrently, those 10
regional centres should also be measured against the infrastructure and services
available in Melbourne, with a benchmark established showing Melbourne’s status
across various categories (e.g. education, health). Over time, all regional centres
should not only be increased to the highest benchmark for each category when
comparing those 10 regional centres, but should jointly be brought up to the
benchmark established for Melbourne across the various categories. A comparison
could also be established with similar cities in other States.
In the long-term, this investment in connectivity infrastructure and services will drive
decentralisation, essentially creating 11 node centres across Victoria (including
Melbourne). Investment in infrastructure in those node centres will have a flow on
effect to surrounding towns in each of those regions given the investment in
connectivity infrastructure often flowing through those towns, as well as the uptake in
industry moving to that region.
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 If an assessment is made across the 10 regional centres with the benchmark
for roads being a two lane each way highway connecting that centre, then a two
lane each way highway should be established in each of those regional centres.
 If passenger rail services are available in some of those regional centres,
passenger rail should be available in each of those regional centres.
 If the benchmark for each regional town is an airport runway catering for 747s,
the airport for each of those regions should have an airport runway catering for
747s.
 If a particular specialist health service is available in some regional centres, that
speciality health service should be available in each of those regional centres.
 If a particular education course (e.g. medicine) is available in some regional
centres, that particular education course should be available in all.
 If 23 tonne axle loading (TAL) rail line connects one regional centre to the port
for rail freight, rail lines connecting the other regional centres to port should also
be brought up to 23 TAL.
 If a 1000 seat convention centre is built in one regional centre and that is the
benchmark, then a 1000 seat convention centre should also be built in each of
the other regional centres.
 If one regional centre is connected by a 66kV electricity power line with 100MW
capacity (and that is the benchmark), all regional centres should be connected
by a 66kV power line with 100MW capacity.
 Where NBN fibre-to-the-node access is established as a benchmark in a
regional centre, all 10 regional centres should have access to that NBN fibre-
to-the-node (or whatever equivalent fastest service is available in the future).
The Victorian Government’s planned independent Infrastructure Victoria body should
be required to help build and drive this Decentralisation Agenda by helping to create,
utilise and continually update this benchmark comparative assessment to determine
long-term infrastructure priorities across regional centres. The Victorian Government
should fund this diagnostic tool, utilising Regional Cities Victoria, Regional
Development Victoria, Infrastructure Victoria, RDA bodies and other stakeholders to
build the benchmark comparative assessment. In terms of then determining and
implementing infrastructure priorities, Infrastructure Victoria should also have
compulsory representation from each of the 11 nodes (including Melbourne) to guide
this process.
If this approach is taken, over time this investment in infrastructure and services will
encourage industry and people to move to, and stay in, regional centres, with less
disincentives to set up in, or move to, other cities and regions. As examples:
 No longer would an industry choose to set up in one regional centre which has
access to natural gas, as against another regional centre which doesn’t.
 No longer would a student be forced to move to another city or regional centre
(where they are more likely to form relationships and gain employment) which
has an education course not available in their regional centre.

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 No longer would a solar company build their large-scale solar plant elsewhere
because there is not the electricity network capacity in place in a regional centre
to enable that investment to occur immediately.
Where such ‘connectivity equality’ is created in each regional centre (essentially
creating equality of opportunity for towns to have an equal chance to attract industry),
the smallest of those 10 regional centres would ideally benefit the most to begin with,
given other comparative advantages (e.g. land costs). Thus, over time, there should
be not only growth in each of those regional centres through decentralisation but a
gradual equalisation in population size across the 11 nodes. Where equality of
opportunity is created for these centres, equality of opportunity is also enhanced for
the citizens of these centres.
Such investment would gradually reduce the infrastructure pressures on our largest
cities and centres, creating regional economic growth and also creating positive social
outcomes in both the largest cities like Melbourne (i.e. less urban sprawl) and in the
regional centres with current lower social outcomes (i.e. increased job and study
opportunities, as well as services available).
Specifically, the benchmark review across various categories should ideally include
consideration of (but not be limited to):
 Education (infrastructure and availability of courses)
 Road connectivity
 Rail connectivity (freight and passenger (including costs of fares))
 Power connectivity (access to the national grid and capacity)
 Natural gas connectivity (access and capacity)
 Health and aged care (infrastructure and availability of specialist services)
 Water/irrigation connectivity
 Internet connectivity
 Mobile phone connectivity
 Radio/television connectivity
 Airport connectivity
 Sewerage/drainage connectivity
 Locally-based State government departments and agencies
 Local R&D bodies
 Availability of local quarantine and custom services
 Social services availability
 Sporting infrastructure
 Arts infrastructure
 Tourism infrastructure
 Tele-work/tele-conference/video-conferencing infrastructure
 Business/Innovation centres
 A comparative assessment of overall State Government expenditure in each
centre.
 Connectivity between regional centres.

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 National and international connectivity (see below).
A crude example of such a benchmark comparison (not using accurate data but just
to demonstrate the model) is below, focusing on airport runway infrastructure:
Airport Infrastructure (Sub-category A: Airport Runway Infrastructure, Capacity and Quality):
Upper Benchmark - Melbourne
Benchmark - Geelong
Bendigo Wangar, LaTrobe Horsha. Sheppa. Ballarat Geelong Wodon. Mildura Warna. Melbou.
Details:
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c) National and international connectivity of regional centres
Looking beyond Victoria, but still focussing on decentralisation, the Victorian
Government should also look at how we can better connect with other cities and
centres across Australia incorporating the 10 regional centres. While primarily this is
looking at connectivity between Victoria’s capital Melbourne and other state capitals,
such primary connectivity also feeds into growth across regional centres whose path
aligns with this connectivity.
Firstly, the Victorian Government should undertake a thorough supply chain mapping
exercise to see the movement of freight to, from, and between the regional centres,
Melbourne, other States and Territories, and internationally.
Secondly, the Victorian Government should invest in the connectivity infrastructure
and services to improve those supply chains.
Further investment in rail and road connectivity with other States from the regional
centres should be considered.
Examples include looking at road and rail connectivity between Melbourne and
Sydney/Brisbane via Shepparton and Wodonga, road and rail connectivity between
Melbourne and Adelaide (then on to Perth and Darwin) via Horsham, and investing in
infrastructure like rail connectivity between Melbourne to Darwin and Perth via Mildura
and Broken Hill (given capacity on the current Melbourne to Adelaide rail route will
have reached capacity by the mid-2020s, thereby requiring investment in an
alternative route). The initial Victorian Government investment in the upgrade and
standardisation of the Mildura line to 23 tonne axle loading is crucial in enabling this
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Increasing infrastructure investment in airports in the 10 regional centres, as
aforementioned, will help to grow the services available to those centres. It will also
help connect those centres nationally to other states, cities and centres.
For example, in Mildura we now have over 220,000 passenger movements per year
in what is now the busiest airport in regional Victoria, with services connecting Mildura
directly to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Broken Hill. Infrastructure investment has
aided this growth tremendously given passenger movements were around 100,000
about 10 years ago. This airport is one of the primary connectivity infrastructure points
helping to grow Mildura.
Airport infrastructure investment across the 10 regional centres will likely result in
similar growth and increased connectivity. Some may argue that building airport
infrastructure in places like Bendigo is not viable given Bendigo is so close to
Melbourne, but we are also looking at Bendigo’s connectivity with other States and
Territories who may fly direct instead of coming via Melbourne, as occurs in Mildura
for travellers from Adelaide, Sydney and Broken Hill. The same applies to each of the
other 10 regional centres.
The Victorian Government, working with the Federal Government, should also look at
opportunities for further national, and indeed international, connectivity by looking at
what custom and quarantine services can be provided at the airports for those regional
centres (and/or locally), as well as what can be done to invest in air freight connectivity.
The Victorian Government should also look at opportunities to bring international
airport status to airports in the regional centres, such as Mildura, which is an area of
policy currently driving centralisation in urban centres like Melbourne, given
international visitors and business travellers must pass through that port of call first.
d) Connectivity between regional centres
In addressing connectivity, the Victorian Government should also look at connectivity
between each of the regional centres, as opposed to just their connectivity with
Melbourne, interstate or internationally.
e) Cross-border issues
Additionally, the Victorian Government should look to resolving cross-border issues,
particularly for those towns bordering NSW on the Murray River and near or bordering
SA, particularly in terms of transport movement. Issues such as the requirement to get
a different driver’s license, for example, should one move say between Wentworth and
Mildura, or between Albury and Wodonga, or issues such as NSW businesses paying
payroll tax in Victoria due to Victorian based employees but paying Workcover in NSW
based on the main business authorising site, should be resolved through consultation
between the NSW, Victorian and SA Governments.

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A buffer zone of, for example, 50km on either side of the border, whereby one is
exempt from complying with two sets of regulations could apply (for example, to
requirements to change licence, etc). This could enable ease of movement for both
transport and those moving and working across the border in Victoria and vice-versa.
An assessment of the regulatory issues that could be tackled through having this buffer
zone could be undertaken jointly by the Victorian, NSW and SA Governments.
f) Hubs
The regional centres should be seen as hubs for the surrounding towns, much as
Melbourne is currently seen as the hub of Victoria.
Each hub, in comparing connectivity infrastructure and services between them, should
be considered to be a centre of activity. That is, those hubs should be able to
undertake locally necessary quarantine, customs, research and development,
disinfestation, and so forth, with the ability to then send goods straight to port from that
hub instead of diverting those goods via other centres initially.
g) Regional Growth in Smaller Regional and Rural Towns
Investment in infrastructure and services in the 10 regional centres will drive
investment and growth in surrounding regional and rural towns located in each region.
However, those towns themselves also require infrastructure investment to bring them
to standard.
It is recommended that a similar benchmark comparative assessment be made for the
next grouping of towns of a set population size below that of the top 10 regional centres
(e.g. Ararat, Swan Hill, Stawell, etc). Those towns should also be brought up to the
benchmark standard for their grouping across various categories, and a comparison
made between their benchmarks, the benchmarks for the 10 regional centres, and the
benchmarks for Melbourne, with the aim to also bring those towns up to a similar
standard over time.
This could involve creating several groupings of towns with benchmarks for each
grouping.
Recommendations:
A. That the Victorian Government establish a well-funded Decentralisation
Agenda for Victoria.
B. That the Victorian Government strongly facilitate and fund Infrastructure
Victoria, Regional Cities Victoria, Regional Development Victoria, RDA bodies
and other stakeholders to build a benchmark comparative assessment of
connectivity infrastructure and services for the 10 largest regional centres,

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along with a comparison with Melbourne. This should be a public document
once produced.
C. That the Victorian Government support and fund, working with Infrastructure
Victoria and other stakeholders, a similar benchmark comparative analysis for
groupings of towns smaller than the 10 largest regional centres, comparing
these benchmarks against the benchmarks for the 10 regional centres and
Melbourne. This should also be a public document once produced.
D. That Infrastructure Victoria prioritise infrastructure spending according to the
benchmark comparative assessment for the 10 largest regional centres, as well
as according to the benchmark comparative assessments produced for
groupings of towns smaller than the 10 largest regional centres.
E. That Infrastructure Victoria include compulsory representation from each of the
11 nodes, at minimum (the 10 regional centres plus Melbourne).
F. That the Victorian Government look at opportunities to connect both Melbourne
and the 10 regional centres better both nationally and internationally through
infrastructure and services investment, and policy change. This connection
would be between the regional centres, between the regional centres and
Melbourne, between the regional centres and centres in other States, and
internationally.
G. That the Victorian Government undertake thorough supply chain mapping and
investment in connectivity to improve regional centre supply chains within
Victoria, interstate and internationally.
H. That the Victorian Government consider each regional centre as a hub, being
a hub of activity where all necessary services can be undertaken to enable, for
example, custom and quarantine locally so freight can go straight to port from
that hub, or for specialist health services so that people do not need to go to
other centres for that service. Government should also consider locating
departments and agencies within those hubs to incentivise decentralisation.
I. That the Victorian Government work with the NSW and SA Governments to
assess cross-border regulatory issues and to create a buffer zone of 50km on
either side of the borders of Victoria, NSW and SA to create exemptions for
identified regulations impacting movement of goods and people in that cross-
border region (e.g. driver licencing).
2. Regional Services Delivery Model
RDV is an important organisation in helping to determine and drive regional economic
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Uniformity and subsidiarity must exist simultaneously, without creating centralisation
of decision-making authority. RDV should be decentralised as far as possible, while
working with other RDV offices to reduce administration and to identify common goals.
Each of the 10 regional centres, at minimum, should have its own dedicated RDV
office. Different regional centres (often with quite diverse needs), such as Bendigo and
Mildura, should not be placed under the one RDV office or indeed regional grouping.
The same principle should also apply to RDA.
Keeping in mind the principle not to group any of the 10 regional centres under one
banner, opportunities for groupings involving cross-border areas with commonalities
should also be looked at. For example, Mildura has much commonality with the
Riverland in SA, Wentworth in NSW and Swan Hill in Victoria, all horticultural areas.
Areas like Balranald in NSW also have representation on organisations like the Central
Murray Regional Transport Forum (made up of Councils from both Victoria and NSW)
as there is a common interest in moving goods from southern NSW to port in Victoria.
Each RDV office should also be given more power to make more decisions locally, for
example in relation to grant funding and infrastructure expenditure, working of course
within a decentralised but uniform framework and with new bodies such as
Infrastructure Victoria.
In addition, business funding for business planning, export assistance and so forth
currently aimed at commercial enterprises should be opened up to agriculture (which
it is not open to currently). Agriculture now forms part of the new Department of
Economic Development under which RDV also sits. In addition, agriculture is
becoming much more corporatised these days, thus the need for commercial planning,
management and marketing assistance.
Recommendations:
J. That RDV offices remain in place across Victoria and be decentralised as much
as possible.
K. That each of the 10 regional centres forming Regional Cities Victoria should, at
a minimum, have their own RDV office. None of the 10 regional centres should
be grouped with one another under the same banner.
L. That the Victorian Government, working with other States and the Federal
Government, should work together to reform RDA to ensure that none of those
10 regional centres are grouped under one banner (as they are currently are,
for example with RDA Loddon Mallee incorporating both Bendigo and Mildura).
M. That RDV offices should be given more power to make decisions locally, while
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ensure common goals where applicable as well as reducing administration
expenses.
N. RDV business funding, for business planning, management, marketing export
assistance and so forth, should be opened up to the agricultural sector.
3. Legislative, Regulatory and Policy Framework
The Victorian Government should also look at the legislative, regulatory and policy
framework holding back further investment in, and exports from, regional centres in
Victoria. The Victorian Government should also work with their counterparts in other
State and Territory Governments to implement regulatory and policy change at the
Federal level benefitting regional centres and regional growth.
a) Issues raised in MDC’s Agricultural White Paper Submission
A number of legislative, regulatory and policy based issues have already been outlined
in MDC’s Submission to the Federal Government’s Agricultural Competitiveness
White Paper dated April 2014, which addresses a number of the issues facing the
agricultural sector of relevance across regional Victoria – see Attachment A.
For example, the Agricultural White Paper Submission notes the need for better
labelling laws which can grow regions by encouraging the purchase of local produce.
A summary of some of the key recommendations in the aforementioned submission
to grow agricultural competitiveness (focussing on regional investment and policies to
influence outcomes) is as follows:
 Invest in road, rail and broadband infrastructure
 Invest in broadband infrastructure
 Investment in research and development
 Increasing education infrastructure, workforce capacity, training and skills
 Red tape reduction, with native vegetation and anti-dumping in particular.
 Improving food labelling (showing percentages for ownership, where it is made,
and ingredients/where it is grown)
 Investment in further irrigation modernization
 Telecommunications investment
 Developing infrastructure in existing food production areas
 Creation of an environment for large-scale production
 Biosecurity investment (note that this remains crucial to tackle locally)
 Water management and policy
 Planning issues
 Tax incentives to support multifamily farming, share farming and cooperatives
 Investment in innovation
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 A fairer and more transparent immigration system for temporary and permanent
workers
 Facilitating opportunities to build trade relationships, including support for trade
missions
 Decentralisation of government departments to regional centres
 The need to assist succession planning.
Also noted since that submission is the Victorian Government announcement that
funding will be committed to the upgrade and standardisation of the Mildura rail line,
as well as Federal Government announcements about the NBN fixed wireless rollout
to the Mildura region and the multi-technology mix including fibre to Red Cliffs and
Wentworth. Both are excellent outcomes for our region.
b) Value adding through Research and Development, Innovation and Capacity
Building
Victoria and Australia have an advantage in main export markets like China, Japan
and Korea in having a quality, clean, green image, with a stable policy environment.
This needs to be taken advantage of by enhancing our strengths to add value to what
we produce and to emphasise quality over high-quantity, low-quality goods.
Accordingly, we need to expand and fund to a much larger extent local research and
development, innovation and capacity building. Specifically, research and
development should be funded locally within each of the 10 regional centres, such that
researchers can work closely with industry and respond accordingly. R&D will enable
growth in innovation, as we have seen in countries like Korea who are in the top 7
investors in R&D as a percentage of GDP. The other countries in the top 7 are Japan,
Germany, USA, France, UK and China. Notably, Australia does not feature.
The Federal Government’s Industry Growth Centres (such as for food and
agribusiness) are examples of initiatives to push this research, development and
innovation along. The food and agribusiness Industry Growth Centre, as the Federal
Government notes, “may assist food manufacturers to work with packaging companies
and researchers to consider packaging solutions to extend the shelf life of products,
especially into regional export markets where a lack of refrigeration is a problem”.
Similar research and development, growth and innovation centres should be
established in each regional centre by the Victorian Government to drive research,
development and innovation to improve export outcomes, feeding directly back into
regional economic outcomes. Examples of such research include looking at
adjustments to products to cater for consumers needs and wants in Asia, looking at
packaging to better shelf life and improve consumer perception, and so forth.
Opportunities should also be developed further for local businesses to hear from
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video conferencing opportunities so that people can attend locally. This would further
decentralise the knowledge-base currently centred in Melbourne and larger centres.
c) Connectivity branding and marketing of regions
Feeding in with recommendations regarding supply chain mapping, the Victorian
Government should also look at their policies around connectivity branding across
various regions. For example, the Victorian Government should look to help assist
branding for regions with similar make-up (such as Murray Valley branding), as well
as help enhance existing local branding like ‘Crafted by Mildura’ set up by Mildura
Development Corporation and Mildura Wines (see www.craftedbymildura.com.au).
The Government should also look at provision of funding to market the 10 regional
centres in places like Melbourne (for example, through television advertising), to
encourage people to live and invest in those centres. The Regional Living Expo is a
good marketing tool for the regions, but that encouragement to move to and invest in
regional Victoria needs to be year round to assist the decentralisation process.
d) Payroll tax and other tax incentives, concessions and exemptions
The government should look to payroll tax concessions and exemptions for regional
Victoria to encourage decentralisation, essentially creating an affirmative action policy
to help reverse previous policies, and infrastructure and services investment, which
effectively encouraged centralisation.
This would incentivise business and industry to choose to set up in regional Victoria,
particularly in the absence of immediate infrastructure investment which would have
otherwise encouraged businesses to set up in the regions had it been in place.
Other taxes and duties such as stamp duty could also incorporate further concessions
and exemptions for regional Victoria.
e) Planning laws
State Government should look to further simplify planning laws to help further business
investment and development in regional Victoria. This can often be a cumbersome
process for businesses. In NSW, for example, building and planning are considered
together, which greatly streamlines the planning process.
As part of this simplification, planning exemptions and concessions for developments
in regional Victoria could be considered to encourage decentralisation.
Recommendations:
O. That the Victorian Government consider the issues and comments raised by
MDC as part of our submission to the Federal Government’s Agricultural
Competitiveness White Paper dated April 2014, including the need to greatly

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increase funding to tackle local biosecurity issues, particularly fruit fly infestation
in both urban and farming areas.
P. That the Victorian Government look to provide further funding for research,
development and innovation within each regional centre (including through
establishing State funded locally-based innovation centres), to help enhance
outcomes for local goods both domestically and overseas, by adding value to
what is being produced (and looking at what could be produced).
Q. That the Victorian Government enhance opportunities for local businesses and
industries in the 10 regional centres to hear from experts locally, such as
through video and teleconferencing opportunities online and/or based through
local bodies such as Mildura Development Corporation.
R. That the Victorian Government assist connectivity branding efforts across
several like regions (like Murray Valley), as well as help further and enhance
local regional branding projects (such as ‘Crafted by Mildura’ established by
Mildura Development Corporation and Mildura Wines).
S. That the Victorian Government fund marketing for the 10 regional centres (such
as television advertising) to encourage people living in Melbourne and
elsewhere to move to and invest in those centres.
T. That the Victorian Government look at providing tax and duty exemptions and
concessions in regional Victoria, for items like payroll tax and stamp duty.
U. That the Victorian Government look at opportunities to further simplify planning
laws, including consideration of streamlining building and planning together. In
conjunction, the Government should also look to providing exemptions or
concessions for development and development processes to encourage
investment in regional Victoria.
4. Investment Attraction and Business Development
a) Trade fair / trade mission funding
The Victorian Government provides small grant funding through the Department of
Economic Development, usually around $2000, to enable participation in international
trade missions (such as Seoul Food and Hotel). This is sufficient to send about one
representative but does not cover all costs such as shipping of goods.
Ideally, each of the 10 regional centres should have representation at such key trade
fairs. It is therefore recommended that the Victorian Government provide funding of
$10,000 per regional centre to enable representation of each region at these trade
fairs, as well as a dedicated space for each region. Involvement should be led by the
local economic development body for each regional centre (whether MDC in Mildura

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region or within Council in others regions) and the local RDV office. This enables
multiple key local leaders and industry representatives to attend from each region to
promote exports and two-way trade. Particularly with many of our trading partners in
Asia – such as China, Japan and South Korea – representation on the ground is crucial
as face-to-face relationship building can be the difference in terms of attracting
investment, growing exports, and facilitating two-way trade.
As part of that $10,000 for each region per key trade fair, that grant funding should
include coverage of freight of goods and information for display, which is not currently
covered under the available $2000 grant funding.
For individual companies attending, the $2000 grant should continue and should also
include coverage of freight of goods as opposed to just flights and accommodation.
Ideally, the amount should be increased to $3000 which better covers one
representative from each company to attend.
These small initiatives will help aid regions and regional companies and industries to
attend key trade fairs to build relationships and grow local exports.
b) Local access to investment facilitators
Other initiatives that could be considered include enhancing the ability for the regional
centres (hubs) and their local businesses to work with investment facilitators, ideally
through locally based facilitators but also through utilising online video and
teleconferencing and/or local workshops using that technology based in organisations
like Mildura Development Corporation.
c) Promoting investor readiness
While promotion of investment is one aspect, funding should also be given for local
businesses and industries to be investor ready, and for organisations like Mildura
Development Corporation to promote investor readiness. Otherwise, we have found
that when investor enquiries come, many local businesses are not investor ready
and/or do not have the skills to take advantage of that investment opportunity. This
needs to be addressed.
d) Positioning and focusing on our strengths
Regional Victoria, and indeed Melbourne and the Victorian economy, will greatly
benefit if the Victorian Government is to focus its primary energy and resources on our
strengths in terms of export and trade opportunities, building the connectivity
infrastructure, services, innovation funding, and research and development funding to
enhance those strengths.
Deloittle’s paper, Positioning for prosperity? Catching the next wave (March 2014)
clearly identifies the top five strengths in Australia: agribusiness, international
education, gas, tourism and wealth management – see Attachment B.

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As Deloitte point out, “Prosperity. It’s not about luck. It happens when you’ve got
something others want. And the more you make of it, the more you’ll prosper.”
We need to therefore help enable those businesses and industries in our top five
strength areas to make and produce more, by building the infrastructure and services,
and eliminating the regulatory hurdles, to help them grow.
We should focus on growing in these areas across all of the 10 regional centres where
applicable, particularly for example in agribusiness where many of the regions shine.
Where other countries and regions have focussed on strengths, they have prospered.
For example, South Korea focusses its energy of six powerhouse industries where it
has a competitive strength: automobile, IT, display industry, semiconductor industry,
the chemical industry, and the new and renewable energy industry.
Recommendations:
V. That the Victorian Government create a grant of $10,000 for regional
representation at key international trade fairs, for each of the 10 regional
centres. Involvement should be led by the local economic development bodies
(such as MDC in Mildura region and local Councils in other regions) and the
local RDV office. Freight of goods (up to a certain amount if deemed necessary)
should be included within the $10,000 grant along with flights and
accommodation which are already covered.
W. That the Victorian Government increase the $2000 grant available to individual
companies to attend key trade fairs to $3000, also incorporating the freight of
goods (up to a certain amount if deemed necessary).
X. That the Victorian Government enhance the ability for the regional centres
(hubs) and their local businesses to work with investment facilitators, ideally
through locally based facilitators but also through utilising online video and
teleconferencing and/or local workshops using this technology based in
organisations like Mildura Development Corporation.
Y. That the Victorian Government fund local businesses and industries to be
investor ready, and for local organisations in the 10 regional centres like
Mildura Development Corporation to promote investor readiness (e.g. through
local forums).
Z. That the Victorian Government focus its energy, in particular, on the five key
strength areas identified by Deloitte in their paper, Positioning for prosperity?
Catching the next wave, when looking at priority infrastructure and services
investment, research and development, trade fairs and grant funding.

19. 17 April 2014
Agricultural Competitiveness Taskforce
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
PO Box 6500
Canberra ACT 2600
To whom it may concern,
SUBMISSION – AGRICULTURAL COMPETITIVENESS ISSUES PAPER
Please find enclosed Mildura Development Corporation (MDC)’s submission in
response to the Agricultural Competitiveness Issues Paper.
MDC is the peak economic development organisation for the Mildura region and has
a vision of ‘Our Region. Our Prosperity.’ Our organisation has been proactive in
marketing Mildura to the world and attracting diversified investment opportunities.
Our Board is comprised of experienced business and industry leaders who
understand the commercial realities of development, as well as the Mildura region.
The Mildura region’s local economy, situated at the heart of the Murray Darling
Basin, is dominated by the horticultural and dryland agricultural sectors, which, along
with food, wine and beverage processing, contribute greatly to our $2.9 billion Gross
Regional Product per annum (REMPlan 2014).
We look forward to publication of the White Paper and further action in growing
agriculture’s competitiveness, farm gate profitability and the prosperity of rural and
regional communities including the Mildura region.
Yours sincerely,
Chris Crewther
Chief Executive Officer
Mildura Development Corporation
101 Lime Avenue Mildura Victoria 3500 Telephone: 03 5022 0722
PO Box 4146 Mildura Victoria 3502 Facsimile: 03 5022 0251
Website: www.milduraregion.com.au Email: info@milduraregion.com.au
Attachment A
Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper Submission - IP519
Mildura Development Corporation
Submitted 17 April 2014

20. Submission to the Agricultural Competitiveness Issues Paper
Mildura Development Corporation (MDC) supports the Australian Government’s
goal, through the Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper, to grow agriculture’s
competitiveness, farm gate profitability and the prosperity of rural and regional
communities. The issues identified in the issues paper have strong relevance to the
food production area of the Mildura region.
The Mildura region is located in the heart of the Murray Valley at the intersection of
Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia and encompasses the junction of the
Murray and Darling River systems.
Food production is the basis of the Mildura region’s economy and will continue to
form an important part of its future, generating a large proportion of its $2.9 billion
Gross Regional Product per annum.
Over the last twenty years, food production sectors and areas have seen great
changes to policy and also to practices, amidst the challenge of declining terms of
trade for Australian farmers.
With a focus on irrigated horticulture and dryland agricultural production, the Mildura
region has been both impacted and responsive to these changes in policy, with all of
our industry sectors exposed to an increasingly open and free market over the past
few decades.
A range of food processors are located in the Mildura region, providing considerable
employment opportunities and skills sets. These include, but are not limited to,
award winning wineries, table grape production and packing, dried fruit processing
and packing, beverage production, citrus production and packing, olive processing,
almond processing and other boutique food processing sectors.
As a major export region, we are in a good position to respond to increasing
demands from Asia, particularly from our three largest export partners – Japan,
China and South Korea. However, we also note that the production of quality clean
and green products requires a high value return for profitability. It is only with
profitability that our local industry sectors and food processors can continue to
re-invest in innovation, productivity and increased production.
The Mildura region is home to a number of established and new horticultural industry
sectors, growing the following percentages of Australia’s produce:
• 98% of Australia’s dried vine fruit;
• 75% of Australia’s table grapes of which 64% are exported;
• 66% of Australia’s almonds;
• 48% of Australia’s pistachios;
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21. • 24% of Australia’s citrus of which 44% is exported;
• 23% of Australia’s olives;
• 14% of Australia’s asparagus;
• 13% of Australia’s carrots; and
• more than 60 types of fruit, vegetables and nut products.
Known as a major irrigation region across north-west of Victoria, water security is a
very important factor for ongoing food production in the Mildura region.
Dryland farming and livestock contribute significantly to the Mildura region’s
economy, with sheep, grain and cattle contributing over $140.7 million in output. In
2010-11 the region produced nearly 1 million tonnes of grain, or 2.1% of Australia’s
broadacre crops.
MDC acknowledges that to achieve the prosperity of rural and regional communities,
they must not only be innovative but must also be well connected with high-quality
infrastructure and access to human capital, including education and training.
To ensure agricultural competiveness in Australia, businesses must be able to
develop high quality products that the market is willing to pay high value for. This will
provide significant advantages, including profitability, in the sector. Further learnings
from other industry sectors and intensive research must be undertaken and passed
on to industry if demand is to be met while maintaining price.
Priority issues
The following issues are considered priority areas to be addressed in the
development of the White Paper:
Investment in road, rail and broadband infrastructure:
Roads and rail
MDC would like to see significant investment in rail and road infrastructure, to
connect the food growing regions including Mildura to the major centres and ports.
In the short-term, in the Mildura region, a full upgrade and standardisation of the
Mildura rail line (connecting Mildura to port in Melbourne and Geelong) is required to
significantly increase freight productivity. This investment will also prevent further
closures of the rail line (for example in the last year we have seen three closures due
to derailments and one closure due to bushfire damage). This investment would
enable producers to move their goods to market in a more efficient and safer manner
and would have a large scale positive economic impact on the regional, Victorian
and national economies.
Attachment A

22. Market access via transport is a critical component of food production systems in
Australia, with the large geographic distances that have to be covered to reach either
a domestic market or to reach freight hubs for the export market.
In order for local agricultural and horticultural businesses in the Mildura Region to be
globally competitive, it is vital that road and rail systems are regularly reviewed,
particularly at a national level, and that there is a fair and reasonable infrastructure
spend to support these systems.
Increased freight costs impact on prices coming back to the producer which affects
profitability and reinvestment into food production. Finding ways to minimise these
costs will therefore increase productivity.
The current tri-state road transport regulations also have a negative impact on the
efficiency of cross-border freight movement, which has a flow on effect to overall
profitability and market access. The lack of rolling stock on rail for transport of bulky
commodities such as grains has created further pressure on the State and local road
systems.
Support for further trials of higher productivity vehicles, such as B-Triples, and a
review of tri-state (and cross-border) regulations in freighting goods to market or to
port, is also an important consideration for the Mildura region and for agricultural
regions.
Significant rail upgrades will also result in increased freight of goods via rail, thereby
reducing road deterioration caused by heavy-vehicle transport (and subsequent
costs). Both road and rail upgrades will also result in more safe, efficient movement
of goods, thus increasing freight productivity and economic output.
Broadband
The Mildura region is currently the largest regional centre in Victoria with no planned
NBN rollout. Our economy and our community are therefore significantly
disadvantaged, as large areas of our region can only access internet services that
are unreliable, expensive and slow.
The lack of internet infrastructure impacts greatly on our region’s ability to deliver
services such as online learning, commerce, exports, health service, finance,
professional services, tele-work and smart farming.
Very fast broadband is essential to ensuring the competitiveness of our region’s
industries and exports (primarily from the agricultural and horticultural sectors). Fast
broadband would improve productivity, community connectedness, investment
attraction, business retention and growth, the prospects for development of new
industries, and innovation.
Attachment A

23. Research and Development:
Research and Development (R&D) is a crucial component to ensuring increased
food production. Increases in productivity on farm are directly linked to R&D
outcomes. In recent years there have been significant cutbacks in R&D, particularly
large-scale R&D in regional and rural areas. The closure of the CSIRO site in
Mildura, for example, has impacted local R&D as well as our national biosecurity, as
evidenced by recent incursions to our pest free area.
By establishing R&D facilities in rural and regional areas, the skills base of that
region is increased, which also leads to further community development
opportunities.
The importance of R&D taking place within food production regions also ensures
technology transfer between farms and food processors.
Linking with universities to develop and establish research programs in regional
areas that are related to food production will boost productivity and skills
development.
Attracting graduates and trainees into rural and regional R&D courses, such as
agronomy, is becoming increasingly difficult. It is imperative to consider new options
and incentives so that these areas will become more attractive to science and other
graduates.
With less people studying agriculture we also need incentives for students to study in
this field, which could include incentives to undertake beneficial on-farm placements
and incentives to ensure the best students are entering into the sector.
R&D to support all stakeholders along the supply chain is vital for increased
competitiveness and the profitability of Australian agriculture.
There are limited funds available for farmers and horticulturists to contribute to
innovation and productivity in their industry sectors. Government funding is therefore
critical to ensure that these opportunities can be explored, which will lead to
increased production and increased profitability of their sectors. Tariffs should be
avoided as we move to an environment of increasing free trade. However,
consideration should be given to ensuring a equal playing field for producers by
implementing an R&D levy on imported foods, equivalent to those placed on local
foods.
Further R&D also needs to be undertaken to understand what the limiting factors are
to increasing production across industry sectors. Assessment needs to include the
Attachment A

24. difficulties and secondary impacts associated with decreased production on the food
processing sector and the requirements for continuity of supply.
Education, Workforce & Skills:
Agribusiness in Australia is high cost. In order to remain globally competitive, we
need to differentiate our products and innovate. To achieve this we need the best
people and skills in the industry.
Improving educational outcomes for the agricultural and horticultural sectors requires
increased resourcing for post-secondary college and tertiary institutions located in
food production areas. However, these training centres must be closely aligned to
the industry sectors to fully appreciate the training requirements.
It is essential to create productive relationships between agricultural and horticultural
based businesses to establish targeted training as well as meaningful on-farm
placements.
Incentives are required for students to study agriculture and to support regional
institutions delivering training.
A fairer and more transparent system is also required for international workers.
Across Australia, our products can be differentiated based on better quality and
quarantine compared to our global competitors. Therefore, supporting locally trained
quarantine, pathology and scientists who understand pest and disease control is
essential.
Locally, the Mildura region continues to demonstrate relatively lower educational
outcomes than that of other areas in regional Victoria or Melbourne. As such, further
resourcing to lift educational standards is critical.
Industry Workforce Development is topical and is being undertaken across various
industry sectors and regions in Australia. For example, the Mildura region has
undertaken its own Industry Workforce Development Strategy for the Wine, Olive
and Beverage sectors and has implemented a number of strategies including:
• Skills Passport – common and basic training provided by local training
providers that will equip new entrants to work in any one of the above industry
sectors (www.skillspassportfoodandbeverage.com.au)
• Career Brochures – explaining the variety of career pathways available to
school leavers and others when entering these industry sectors, including
interviews with employees within these sectors documenting their career
opportunities
• Career Teacher’s Excursions to Food Processing Facilities – organising local
Career Teachers to visit food processing facilities and farms to provide a better
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25. understanding of the sophistication of these sectors and the career
opportunities available
• Grow Your Career expos – providing information to school leavers and others
in regard to food production and food processing
Red Tape:
The red tape surrounding the removal of native vegetation is an issue for producers,
particularly when growers want to consolidate acreage to use large scale machinery.
Government needs to introduce a more efficient system for farmers to deal with
native vegetation.
In relation to anti-dumping, while it is recognised that due diligence must be
undertaken, the process is too onerous and there needs to be streamlined
anti-dumping laws in Australia.
Food Labelling:
MDC acknowledges that food labelling is a very complex issue, however action must
be taken to better communicate Australian ownership, make, and ingredients of
products to consumers. This could be achieved with percentage figures for the
degree of Australian elements of a product and/or a three tick/three percentage
approach which communicates Australian ownership, make, and ingredients (for
example, a product could be marked as 100% Australian owned, 60% Australian
made, using 30% Australian produce).
Other issues
MDC recognises that the issues highlighted above are some of the priority areas
particularly relevant to the Mildura region. However, we also recognise the equally
important issues below as relevant to both the Mildure region and, more generally, to
agriculture across Australia. MDC has provided a short dot-point summary of some
of the issues in these other areas.
Other general investment in infrastructure:
o Investment in general road infrastructure to allow for the efficient and safe
movement of trucks and transport in general;
o Irrigation modernisation to assist farmers to transition into more intensive
production systems;
o Investment in telecommunications (mobile and broadband) to assist farmers in
regional Australia;
o Prioritise investment into developing and maximising infrastructure that
already exists in food production areas, before developing Northern Australia;
o Creation of an environment for large scale production.
Attachment A

26. Education:
o Technical and leading universities;
o Up-skilling and feeding into research and development.
Biosecurity:
o Further work in the eradication of fruit fly;
o Further work to guarantee the status of pest free areas;
o Implementation of new biosecurity laws.
o Reduction of quarantine inspection and packing shed fees, which has had an
impact on those requiring the services, especially small to medium operators;
o Trained quarantine, pathology and scientist locally who understand pest and
disease control.
Water Management:
o Prices and cost;
o Supply;
o Avoiding dried-off properties;
o Water storage opportunities;
o Water use efficiencies;
o Effective markets;
o Streaming cross-border issues.
Planning:
o Improving efficiency of the planning processes for farmers, particularly in
relation to subdivision and consolidation of land;
o Native vegetation.
Enterprise structure:
o Restructuring the tax system and/or tax incentives to support alternatives to
corporate farming such as multifamily farming, share farming and
cooperatives.
Innovation:
o Further investment in local agricultural and horticultural research and
development, especially targeting higher value adding and differentiated
produce;
o Funding towards developing innovative value ideas such as large scale
grants that will support farmers develop and pilot innovative ideas;
o Locate state of the art research facilities in agricultural areas (such as
Mildura), which will contribute to increased investment and jobs growth in the
region.
Red tape:
o Reduction of red rape relating to the employment of staff;
o Elimination of inefficient taxes/duties such as payroll and stamp duty;
Attachment A

27. o Have a government taskforce engage in fieldwork with agriculture/horticulture
businesses so they can experience red tape issues first hand.
Food labeling:
o Ensure clearer food labeling laws;
o Increased consequences for those who breach these food labeling laws.
Imported goods:
o Ensure imported agricultural and horticultural produce and products meet the
same regulatory standards that Australian producers are required to meet,
whether relating to chemical use and so forth.
Immigration and workforce:
o Ensure a more efficient, fairer and transparent Australian immigration system;
o Ensure that the working rights of immigrants working in the agricultural and
horticultural sector are protected, while maintaining an efficient system;
o Consideration of divorcing sponsorship from visa process;
o Increasing education and awareness of visas for farmers, communities and
immigrants.
Trade and export:
o Creating more opportunities to build trade relationships;
o Increased support for trade missions;
o Increased support for export services such as AusTrade’s Tradestart advisors;
o Enhanced exposure for Australian producers to world competitive markets
through overseas travel/work exchanges;
Government agencies/departments:
o Decentralisation of government agencies/departments, particularly locating
agriculture/horticulture agencies/departments in agriculture/horticulture
producing areas.
Attachment A

28. Next waves
The Fantastic Five
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education and wealth management have the potential
to be as big as mining.
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The reality is that we need new growth drivers. We need
another wave - or several - to build a platform for our
next generation, much of which is already suffering as
a result of our exceptionally high youth unemployment.
The first place to look is those sectors that can be
expected to grow significantly faster than global gross
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