Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2024-05-01 Daily Xml

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Wine Grapegrowers

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:29): Supplementary: given that the working group was supposed to report back to agricultural ministers by the end of April, has the minister had any dialogue or correspondence in recent days from the working group?

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:29): I haven't had any files come through to me at this stage. My understanding is that the work that will be provided to agricultural ministers, which is out of session from our national agriculture ministers' meeting, will include essentially a summary of what has been heard, what the working group heard so far, and then potentially information about measures that will need most likely to have more investigation. The paper is due to come back to the meeting of agricultural ministers, if I remember correctly, in July, and so there is obviously quite a lot of work that needs to be done before that date.