Bill
Saving Australian Dairy Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Pauline Hanson
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-12-02
- second reading — 2019-12-02
- other — 2022-07-25
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 2019-12-02.
The bill would create a minimum price for farm milk and regulate the dairy supply chain.
It would direct the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to set a minimum farm-gate milk price by region and make it an offence for a processor to buy milk below that price.
The offence would carry a penalty of 2000 penalty units, and the bill would also require a Productivity Commission inquiry into the effectiveness of the price-setting amendments.
- Tasks the ACCC with setting a minimum price for milk fat and protein content per region.
- Creates an offence for paying less than the base price for milk.
- Requires a mandatory code of conduct for the dairy industry supply chain.
- Requires the minister to refer an inquiry to the Productivity Commission on the price amendments and possible divestiture orders.
- Prevents the minister from ending the Productivity Commission inquiry before it reports.
Dairy farmers, milk processors, first purchasers of milk, and the dairy supply chain, as well as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Productivity Commission.
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