Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. Minister, your department released an exposure draft of the competition and consumer industry code dairy regulation 2019 in the last week of October. The exposure draft differs dramatically from the earlier draft clauses for a dairy code workshopped with dairy farmers in early 2019. In particular, there is a new provision: circumstances beyond the control of the milk processor which permit unilateral price reductions in milk contracts contrary to the recommendation of the ACCC. Would the minister please explain how the new provision concerning circumstances outside the control of the processor came to be put into the exposure draft?