Anthony Pratt
Anthony Pratt
I like to do things that you need to chip away at.
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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.
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In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.
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Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.
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New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds.
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That remains to be seen. People tend to buy a vehicle that suits their lifestyle and shop within that segment. They're going into uncharted waters with those vehicles.
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They have to make a convincing argument they have the best idea. The biggest challenge they're going to have with their engine is that, it seems so easy, I think a lot of people are going to think it's too good to be true.
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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.
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It's a roll of the dice that Congress is going to have to take care of,
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Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits.
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A lot of education has to take place. They're not slow and smelly... that they're actually more environmentally friendly than people might think. But our research shows that they're a tough sell to those buyers.
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Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.
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Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.
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The money spent up front to avoid damage is a very small amount compared to what is spent to recover from a disaster,