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

I move:

That the following matter be referred to the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee for inquiry and report by 26 March 2014:

The future of the beekeeping and pollination service industries in Australia, with particular reference to:

(a) the importance of these industries from a food security, environmental and financial point of view;

(b) current challenges facing the beekeeping industry domestically and internationally, and its future sustainability;

(c) the adequacy of the current biosecurity arrangements for imported and exported honey, apiary products, package bees and queen bees;

(d) Australia's food labelling requirements, and how these affect the beekeeping industry;

(e) the recommendations from the House Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Resources 2008 report More than Honey; the future of the Australian honey bee and pollination industries, and the Rural Affairs and Transport References Committee 2011 report Science underpinning the inability to eradicate the Asian honey bee; and

(f) any related matters.

Question agreed to.