Wendy Askew (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator McKenzie, I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, by no later than 23 March 2026, the following documents:

(a) any briefing materials, briefing notes, file notes and emails between the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the minister) and/or their office and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) with regard to the draft Export Cost Recovery Implementation Statements for 2026-27 for dairy products, grain and plant products, horticulture, live animals, meat, non-prescribed goods, fish and egg products and seafood and eggs (the commodities);

(b) any briefing notes, file notes, emails, spreadsheets, software databases and modelling that the department used that determine the proposed fees and charges in 2026-27, 2027-28, 2028-29 and 2029-30 in the draft Export Cost Recovery Implementation Statements for 2026-27 for all of the commodities including, but not limited to:

(i) the activity type,

(ii) the number of times each activity is undertaken,

(iii) the time spent on each activity,

(iv) the individual line items that made up the modelled cost,

(v) the data and scenarios to support the modelled volumes, and

(vi) how new regulatory activities have been taken into consideration in cost recovery—China Import Food Enterprise Registration, Micor sustainment, market maintenance, non-compliance investigation and triage;

(c) any briefing materials, briefing notes, file notes and emails between the minister and/or their office and the department with regard to the draft Export Cost Recovery Implementation Statements for 2026-27 and the impact of the proposed fees and charges on the viability of agricultural industries for all of the commodities; and

(d) any briefing notes, file notes, and emails between the minister and/or their office and the department relating to the development of an ongoing sustainable funding model to support the department's export regulatory and trade activities that commenced from 2023-24 mid-year economic and fiscal outlook.

Question agreed to.

Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Regional Development) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I ask, in relation to general business notice of motion No. 418, that the government's opposition be recorded.