Terri Butler (Griffith, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

This legislation, the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2016, is very important to a number of my constituents. I particularly want to mention the story of Mr Simon Korlaki, who has contacted me on a number of occasions, including at one of my mobile offices, to raise with me his concerns about some of the difficulty in knowing where food comes from. I am a strong supporter of making sure that people are able to find out where the food that they are buying comes from. Of course, Mr Speaker, you will have heard Labor talking a lot lately about not just employing Australian and building Australian but also buying Australian, and I know it is something that my constituents are very concerned about. Mr Korlaki has raised a number of different types of foods. He contacted my office about walnuts. He bought a packet of walnuts and on the packet it said, 'Made from local and imported ingredients.' He said, 'It's a packet of walnuts. How can there possibly be a diversity of local and imported ingredients in that packet?' He came to see me at my mobile office, as I mentioned, and brought with him a packet of acai berries. I am not sure if I have the pronunciation right, but everyone in this place will have had an acai bowl with the beautiful bananas and strawberries and honey on top, and maybe with chia seeds. The berries are delicious, as I am sure you know, Mr Speaker. Trust me, they are delicious.

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