House debates

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Questions without Notice

Wheat Exports

3:27 pm

Photo of Mr Tony BurkeMr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Wakefield for the question. Members may be unaware that yesterday the National Party got really mad. In a very cranky media release was yesterday, the shadow minister for agriculture referred to the Productivity Commission review of the wheat export marketing arrangements. He was concerned about the timing of it and the timing of the first period for submissions coinciding with the wheat harvest. In his media release, he said: ‘Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of the wheat industry in Australia’—

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