Senate debates

Monday, 2 December 2019

Questions without Notice

Dairy Industry

2:43 pm

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

Thank you very much for your question, Senator. It's great to hear the Labor Party concerned about ensuring the sustainability of the dairy industry here in Australia—5,200 dairy farmers, who we have stood with from day one. It was our government that set up the ACCC inquiry on the back of the clawbacks that Murray Goulburn and Fonterra instigated. It was us that got the ACCC to do a very detailed inquiry into the industry. It is that inquiry's recommendations to implement a draft mandatory code that we're actually delivering. We took that policy to the federal election, along with $22 million worth of other support for our dairy farmers. We didn't put in a floor price to the people—

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