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

I move:

(1) the Senate notes that:

(a) on 15 March 2019, the Federal Government announced that it would progress a mandatory code of conduct for the dairy industry;

(b) the current exposure draft of the Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Dairy) Regulations 2019 differs from an earlier exposure draft, in that it provides that milk processors will be able to retrospectively reduce the minimum price paid to producers under a milk supply agreement in circumstances that are 'beyond reasonable control of the processor'; and

(c) the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie, stated during a media interview on 12 November 2019 on ABC Radio National, that 'our legal drafters have interpreted the feedback we got through consultation and have actually reflected that in the words we have today'.

(2) That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Agriculture, by 5 pm on 25 November 2019:

(a) the drafting instructions provided to legal drafters to make changes to the previous exposure draft of the Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Dairy) Regulations 2019; and

(b) all correspondence between milk processors and the Minister for Agriculture, and milk processors and the Department of Agriculture during the period 1 March and 12 November 2019.