Bill
Protecting Australian Dairy Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2019-11-11.
- Sponsor
- Pauline Hanson
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-10-16
- second reading — 2019-10-16
- second reading — 2019-11-11
- second reading — 2019-11-11
Divisions
- Protecting Australian Dairy Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea — 2019-11-11, Senate: negative, ayes 30, noes 31
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-10-16.
The bill would set a minimum price for milk paid to farmers and create a mandatory code of conduct for the dairy industry.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would be required to determine the base price for milk fat and protein content, and a new offence would apply to processors buying milk below that price.
The bill would also require the Productivity Commission to review the price-setting amendments and consider whether a divestiture regime for the food and grocery industries should be introduced.
- The ACCC would establish a minimum price for milk fat and protein content.
- A mandatory code of conduct would regulate the relationship between dairy farmers and processors.
- The relevant Minister would refer an inquiry to the Productivity Commission.
- A processor that agrees to buy milk for less than the base price would commit an offence.
- The Productivity Commission would hold hearings and report on the effectiveness of the price amendments.
- The Minister could not end the Productivity Commission inquiry before the report is submitted.
Dairy farmers, milk processors, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and the Productivity Commission.
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