Bill
Export Control Amendment (Banning Cotton Exports to Ensure Water Security) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01.
- Sponsor
- PATRICK, Sen Rex
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-02-13
- second reading — 2019-02-13
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-02-13.
The bill would prohibit exporting cotton grown in Australia to protect water and food supplies in the Murray-Darling Basin.
It would add a provision to the Export Control Act 1982 that, three years after it starts, regulations must treat Australian cotton as a banned export good.
The ban would not affect cotton produced for use within Australia.
- The bill bans all exports of Australian-grown cotton.
- The ban takes effect three years after the provision commences.
- Cotton grown for domestic use is not affected.
Cotton growers, exporters and governments of the Murray-Darling Basin states and territory.
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