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Speaker 1: Ever dup Vllen Right.

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Speaker 2: Good news for farmers on the eve of field Days.

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Speaker 2: They're not going to have to pay for their emissions.

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Speaker 2: The government has announced agriculture will not be included in

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Speaker 2: the emissions trading scheme and hair Walker ECINOI will be scrapped. Finally.

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Speaker 2: Simon Watts is the Minister for Climate Change and joins us.

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Speaker 1: Now, Hey, Simon, Hey, Heather, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for.

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Speaker 1: Being with us.

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Speaker 2: So you're taking them out of the emissions trading scheme,

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Speaker 2: but are you still expecting them to find some sort

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Speaker 2: of way to pay through some sort of other mechanism

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Speaker 2: for their emissions.

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Speaker 1: Look, we're keeping our promise to farmers to take it

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Speaker 1: out of the ets, but we are going to be

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Speaker 1: working with a farming community around what are the viable

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Speaker 1: pathways for them to look to reduce emissions. And we're

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Speaker 1: still committed to buy twenty thirty to introduce some form

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Speaker 1: of emissions pricing, but is a long period between now

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Speaker 1: and then, But we want to work with the industry,

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Speaker 1: not against them, to make that a reality because this

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Speaker 1: is a really challenging area.

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Speaker 2: You've scrapped Herewalker ECINOI. You've set up another working group

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Speaker 2: to replace it. What's the point of that working group?

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Speaker 1: Look, the working group that we ablush is going to

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Speaker 1: have individuals and entities across the sector. Minister maclay from

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Speaker 1: Aggers is leading on that piece. But this is really

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Speaker 1: just a reset from us. The model that was set

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Speaker 1: up under the prior government was dead in the water.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't working, and we're reframing that. And we've got

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Speaker 1: a good relationship with the SECT now and we're working

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Speaker 1: progressively with them to do what we need to do.

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Speaker 2: What are you hoping to get from the four hundred

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Speaker 2: million dollars that you're putting into R and D well.

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Speaker 1: Look, the key element for us is to get pathways

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Speaker 1: that we can reduce agricultural emissions. Who want that to

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Speaker 1: be industry and farmer lad because our farmers are some

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Speaker 1: of the most carbon efficient farmers in the world, good

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Speaker 1: at innovation, and you know, I'm confident in our farmers

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Speaker 1: that we can find a pathway to not only reduce

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Speaker 1: emissions but also maintain our production because we also need

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Speaker 1: to export to the world. We've got to find the

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Speaker 1: balance between those two things and protect not only our

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Speaker 1: economy but also the resilience in the livelihoods of our

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Speaker 1: farmers as well, and the previous model was putting both

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Speaker 1: of those things that threat Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Too, right, hey, Simon, thank you very much. Call on

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Speaker 2: the decision Simon Watts, Minister of Climate Change.

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