Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

I have just been advised that on 6 August the Treasury released a draft food and grocery code consultation paper for public comment. I would suggest to the good senator that often it is good to get community consultation, to liaise with the community, to ensure that you come to a proper landing on some of these vexed issues. That is what we as a government, from the agriculture and Treasury portfolios, are seeking to do in this space—which is clearly a vexed space—but we want to ensure that there is genuine justice for the dairy farmer, for the retailer and, most importantly, for the consumer. That is the landing we are trying to achieve, and with community consultation and this review we hope we will be able to achieve such an outcome.