NATIONAL AFFAIRS – Senate inquiry questions dairy deregulation*

As Victorian farmers prepare to vote on the issue of dairy deregulation, a little publicised report by the Senate has raised serious questions about the policy.The recent Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Reference Committee report, Deregulation of the Australian Dairy Industry, raises serious questions about the National Competition Policy process.It says that, in part, deregulation is being driven by the need to get production costs down so that farmers can compete on the world m…

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