Senate debates

Monday, 21 November 2011

Motions

European Farm Subsidies

3:34 pm

Photo of John WilliamsJohn Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   notes the continued financial problems and huge debt levels afflicting many European countries;

  (b)   asks the Government to call on the European countries that offer farm subsidy programs, to cease these programs immediately to allow more balanced terms of trade; and

  (c)   agrees that the cessation of farm subsidy programs would assist Australian farmers and the global financial system more broadly.

Question agreed to.