Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to move an amendment to the second reading amendment. My amendment will be seconded by a representative from Tasmania—arguably the biggest dairying state in Australia, outside of Victoria. The area that I represent is the biggest dairying area in Queensland. I move:

That all the words after "House" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:

"notes that the deregulation of the dairy industry in the mid-2000's had catastrophic economic and social impacts on Australian dairy farmers; in 2000, there was 1,545 dairy farms in Queensland and in 2013 there was 500 and that the Government should establish a national single desk to set a minimum price to dairy farmers for milk."

Australia wide, there were 12,896; there are now only 6,398 dairy farmers.

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