Anthony Pratt

I think Australia is just a great place to bring up a family. ”

I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature. ”

Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it. ”

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction. ”

High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention. ”

I have a dream that in the not-too-distant future, Visy Tumut will spend around $100 m to expand our clean energy generation here and take in additional waste forest wood to generate clean renewable energy and sell it into the power grid. ”

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century. ”

My policy in America is, 'Steady growth is forever.' ”