John Anderson (Gwydir, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Let me just say this: you will have to pull a lot of divergent views together, and you will have to take proper account of them, but I do say to you that I think the government has the responsibility for pulling all of this together, having collated carefully the views not only of the industry and of individual growers but also of backbenchers, whose responsibility it is to hear the views of their industry representatives and their growers in particular and to feed those views into this place via the normal process in the party room.

We have to be practical about this. The government must listen but, as the body that gifts the single desk, it has a responsibility to secure the confidence of wheat growers and the trade internationally in the future. I support the proposal before us from the minister. I again emphasise the importance not only of listening very carefully to the growers but also of accepting that the government has the final responsibility in this matter.

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