Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I do notice it is Senator Xenophon asking questions about this, not those doormats down there in the National Party. Senator Boswell is finally alive to something on this issue. Anyway, the Australian government and the minister recognise that consumers are confused by these food-labelling laws. The government is committed to simplifying and strengthening the food-labelling laws, and the minister indicated this during a radio interview. The department is investigating options to simplify and strengthen food-labelling laws in the Food Standards Code and the Trade Practices Act, and the government will do so through this ministerial council. In terms of the funding, as I have indicated in my first response, the moneys provided were seed funding. My assumption is that they— (Time expired)