Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 58 standing in my name for today concerning an order for the production of documents relating to a government response to a committee report into the Australian grape and wine industry by, in paragraph (b), omitting '10 October 2016' and substituting '12 October 2016'.

Leave granted.

That—

(a) the Senate notes that:

(i) the President's report to the Senate on government responses outstanding to parliamentary committee reports as at 30 June 2016, listed the report of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee on the Australian grape and wine industry as amongst the reports the Government had failed to respond to within the 3 month timeframe, and

(ii) the Government still has not provided a formal response to the committee's report, although it has been 7 months since the report was tabled; and

(b) there be laid on the table by no later than 3.30 pm on 12 October 2016 by the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources the Government's response to the report of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee on the Australian grape and wine industry, dated 12 February 2016.

Question agreed to.