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Session 1. Supply and demand outlook

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Plenary Program
Monday, June 27, 2022
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Halls C & D, ground level, Adelaide Convention Centre

Overview

Includes Kaurna Welcome to Country and formal opening of conference and WineTech trade exhibition


Speaker

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Michael O'Brien (Kumatpi)
Senior Kaurna man of the Adelaide Plains people

Kauna Welcome to Country

8:30 AM - 8:43 AM

Biography

Mickey O'Brien (Kumatpi) is a Senior Aboriginal Man. MickeyO, as he is called, is a descendant of the Kaurna (Adelaide Plains) and Narrunga (Yorke Peninsula) peoples. MickeyO has been sharing cultural engagement for a number of years now. It is a role handed to him by his father, Yerla Burka (Old Man of the Sea), a position he honours and respects greatly. He is a foster parent of seventeen years, to three beautiful children. MickeyO has travelled and worked across Australia, living and working in a number of Aboriginal Communities, delivering programs and benefits. He enjoys the opportunity to support the Aboriginal community, sitting on boards and advisory panels. At the 18th AWITC he will share his cultural knowledge and welcome to country with us. His father has told him “Aboriginal people have always welcomed people to this country, we just never told them to go home”.
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The Hon Murray Watt
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Welcome and formal opening

8:43 AM - 8:50 AM

Biography

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Victoria Angove
Joint Managing Director
Angove Family Winemakers

Chair introduction

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM

Biography

Victoria Angove is joint Managing Director of her family’s business, Angove Family Winemakers. Victoria is a commerce graduate of the University of Adelaide and travelled and worked overseas before returning to work at the family business. She has been involved in a breadth of sales and marketing roles within the business including responsibility for exports to Europe and Asia, driving development in emerging markets, including China, and National Account management. Victoria was appointed to the Angove Board of Directors in February 2006 and commenced as an Executive Director in 2013 with involvement across the entire business. Victoria is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves as a Director on the Board of the RAA of South Australia and as a Director of Australian Grape and Wine.
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Saul Eslake
Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow
University of Tasmania

Global economic trends affecting the Australian wine industry

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Abstract

Saul Eslake will discuss the outlook for Australia’s major wine export markets in the context of rising interest rates and increasing geo-political tensions, including in particular with China; and also relevant developments in the Australian economy, including the outlook for interest rates in the aftermath of the first increase in the RBA’s official cash rate for more than 10 years, and for the Australian dollar

Biography

Saul Eslake worked as an economist in Australia’s financial markets for more than 25 years, including as Chief Economist at McIntosh Securities in the late 1980s, National Mutual Funds Management in the early 1990s, ANZ Banking Group (1995-2009), and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (2011-2015). From 2009 to 2011, he was Director of the Productivity Growth program at the newly-established Grattan Institute. In 2015, Saul started his own economics consultancy business, taking up a part-time position as a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania from 2016. He is currently a member of the Australian Parliamentary Budget Office’s Advisory Panel; the Australian Taxation Office’s ‘Tax Gap’ Advisory Panel; and is on the Advisory Board of Jamieson Coote Bonds. He chairs the CSIRO’s Decadal Climate Forecasting Advisory Board, is a non-executive director of the Macquarie Point Development Corporation and was previously on the Board of Hydro Tasmania (2008-2018). Saul has a first-class honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia, and in 2012, he was awarded an Honorary LLD degree by the University of Tasmania. He has also completed the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in New York.
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Su McCluskey
Special Representative for Australian Agriculture

Global trade and agriculture: issues and challenges

9:20 AM - 9:35 AM

Abstract

The principles and institutions that govern the global rules-based trading system have served Australian agriculture over many decades. As a middle-size economy, Australia’s access to export markets is highly reliant on a stable and transparent rules-based order. Multilateral organisations such as the World Trade Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation, provide important mechanisms for Australia to advocate for policies, standards and rules that serve our own trading interests and also provide for global economic growth and prosperity, including enhanced food security.
But the global trading landscape is becoming more complex and challenging. While Australia has a long history of shaping the agricultural multilateral environment, the emergence of a range of global policy issues within these organisations requires a step up of Australian influence and leadership including at a technical level. Similarly, more can be done by Australia’s peak agricultural industries to engage strategically in the multilateral system to ensure that it continues to meet our interests. Finding common ground for building relationships and meeting these challenges is a key focus of my new role as Special Representative for Australian Agriculture.

Biography

As the inaugural Special Representative for Australian Agriculture, Ms McCluskey will promote Australia’s commitment to sustainable agriculture, to the multilateral system and to the principles that underpin global trade in agricultural goods and products. Ms McCluskey is a senior business executive and company director with a strong background in agricultural policy, production and research. Ms McCluskey is the Director of Australian Unity, LiveCorp, Foundation for Young Australians, Australasian Pork Research Institute and Energy Renaissance. She is also a Commissioner for the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, a government body supporting sustainable livelihoods and food security in the Indo-Pacific region and Africa. Previously, Ms McCluskey has been the CEO of the Regional Australia Institute and the Council of Rural Research and Development Corporations and the Executive Director of the Office of Best Practice Regulation. She has also held senior positions with the Business Council of Australia, the National Farmers’ Federation and the Australian Taxation Office. Ms McCluskey has been raising beef cattle for the last 30 years on a property just outside Canberra.
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Tony Battaglene
Chief Executive
Australian Grape and Wine

Outlook for the Australian Grape & Wine Sector

9:35 AM - 9:50 AM

Abstract

We are entering into the most challenging period for the Australian Grape and Wine Sector of the past 30 years. The effective closure of the Chinese market in early 2021 due to the imposition of anti-dumping duties, coupled with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically changed the trading landscape internationally and domestically.

New consumer trends and digitalisation have accelerated due to COVID-19 impacts; international supply chains have been dramatically impacted; global market impacts; climate change; and labour shortages and inflationary pressures, all add up to a difficult few years for the sector.

The oversupply situation that Australia finds itself in does not have a short-term fix. In this paper we explore the short and medium term outlook for the sector, including key domestic and global issues and potential impacts on our sector.

Biography

Tony Battaglene is the Chief Executive of Australian Grape and Wine Incorporated. Australian Grape & Wine is Australia’s national association of grape and wine producers, representing their interests at the national and international level. Tony Battaglene has had significant experience in the research, policy and agri-political space in the food and agriculture sector.
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