Tony Windsor (New England, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to the Prime Minister’s meeting with wheat growers in my electorate to discuss marketing of wheat exports in March 2006 in his then capacity as shadow minister for foreign affairs and trade. Does the Prime Minister recall saying, when asked about future wheat marketing arrangements at that meeting:

I think if the Howard Government is fair dinkum about finding out what wheat farmers want, what they should be doing is polling all registered wheat farmers.

Prime Minister, given that polling taken last year indicated that only 11 per cent of wheat growers wanted a multilicensing arrangement, will you delay passage of your government’s legislation until Australia’s 24,000 registered wheat growers are polled for their views?

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