Senate debates

Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Questions without Notice

Dairy Industry, Minister for Agriculture

2:37 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

My colleague David Gillespie represents a certain cohort of dairy farmers in the Central Coast of New South Wales and has an innovative trading platform concept for dairy farmers to trade their milk. That particular concept wasn't raised in the consultations we'd had with farmers prior to the election, and that is why, if you have a chance, I recommend you go to the Have Your Say place on the department's website around the dairy code, because we're consulting not only on the code but on this innovative approach to trading platforms for milk products, as Mr Gillespie absolutely raised.

So we're going out, as we should, consulting with our eight dairy regions across the country to see what they think of these issues, and then that will be fed into the code once we complete consultations. I think it's on 22 November.

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