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

Thank you very much, Mr President. That $22 million of additional support actually addresses the reason why our dairy farmers are doing it so tough—the increased fodder prices, increased electricity prices and increased water prices, which are putting incredible pressure on the input costs for our dairy farmers despite them getting a historically high farmgate price from the processors.

In terms of bringing the dairy code forward and our election commitment to deliver that by June 2020, we have always been public in our statements that we will deliver the code as quickly as possible, because we know that right now milk processors are attempting to sign our dairy farmers up to contracts of in excess of five years, so, the sooner we can bring that in the better. But I've also said, we won't be introducing a code— (Time expired)