Senator BROCKMAN (Western Australia—Deputy Government Whip in the Senate) (13:32): I rise to talk about the agricultural field days that are currently going on in Western Australia. Agricultural field days, particularly as someone who grew up in the bush and has been in and around agriculture for a long time, were always a highlight of the calendar. As a young child, particularly being able to go to the field days to look at machinery, to interact with other members of farming communities, to see the livestock and the sheep dog trials, they really were a highlight in every calendar year. Obviously, agricultural field days in some parts of Australia, continue to do it very, very tough indeed. Luckily, in Western Australia, we have been able to have an agricultural field day season this year. We've already had a number occur in Western Australia with a large number still to come.

One of the key aspects of preserving those field days and enabling them to go forward has been the Morrison government's program supporting agricultural shows and field days. Help has flowed to agricultural field days across Western Australia for things like installing watering points for sheep and cattle and horse yards as the Brunswick Agricultural Society. We've upgraded the Nanson showgrounds dining hall kitchen in the Chapman Valley. We've helped to fit out the ram shed with the purchase and installation of portable sheep pens for the Esperance and districts agricultural show. We have supported the Katanning agricultural show, the Kellerberrin and districts agricultural show, Kununurra, Mount Marshall and the list goes on and on.