Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

No, seriously—they were perfectly reasonable issues that the minister I represent, Mr Burke, has been giving some consideration to. I note the minister was recently interviewed by Leon Byner—I think he is familiar to you, Senator Xenophon—on 5AA in Adelaide. In fact he interviewed the minister I represent, Mr Burke, on the matters that you raise. That followed, of course, the publication in, I think, the Adelaide Advertiser, which I must confess I do read, even on the north-west coast of Tasmania. It is as impressive a paper as the Advocate. The minister went through a range of issues. To start with, the minister acknowledged that the bureaucratic and ministerial oversight in determining the food labelling laws in this country usually, as represented by the health minister, the agriculture minister— (Time expired)