Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the move by Coles and Woolworths to significantly discount the price of home brand milk, and

(ii)

the difficulties faced by the dairy industry across the country in part because of the duopoly of Coles and Woolworths over a long period of time;

(b)

recalls the tripartite recommendations from the relevant 2010 Senate committee reports to seriously examine marketplace activities which impact adversely on the dairy industry;

(c)

notes that section 49 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 pertaining to anti-price discrimination measures was removed; and

(d)

calls on the Government to reinstate an anti-price discrimination provision in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

Question put.