Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

you might have missed it, Senator Hanson, but on Thursday we were able to deliver on another election commitment from our government to the Australian dairy farmers, to Dairy Australia, to provide for legal and financial literacy support for our dairy farmers as they negotiate contracts. We've got $10 million on the table to help them get their energy costs down. We've got a $22 million package we took to the election, outside of the mandatory code of conduct, to support our dairy farmers. Our dairy farmers are doing it tough right across the country and for a variety of reasons, despite a historically high dairy price. It's because of the input costs. Their water has gone up 300 per cent, their fodder prices have gone up 50 per cent, and, in states like your own home state, where the state government games the system on electricity prices, with a perishable product like dairy, that too is increasing the input cost and making it incredibly challenging. We stand with our dairy farmers and will continue to support them.