Speech by the Deputy Prime Minister, Leader of the National Party, Minister for Trade The Hon Tim Fischer, MP at the Cairns Group Farm Leaders Dinner Sydney, 3 April 1998
3 April 1998
Introduction
My co-host, the President of the National Farmers' Federation, Donald McGauchie, Cairns Group Ministerial Colleagues, John Anderson and other Parliamentary colleagues, Mr Frank O'Halloran, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of QBE Insurance, Cairns Group Ambassadors and High Commissioners and other distinguished guests.
I am delighted to welcome you to this dinner following what I think we all agree has been a very successful 18th Cairns Group Ministerial meeting and the Inaugural Cairns Group Farm Leaders meeting. I want to acknowledge the major contribution the Farm Leaders meeting has made to our work. I congratulate Donald McGauchie and the NFF for their initiative in this regard. Graham Blight also deserves special mention for his key role in bringing the farm leaders together.
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