Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2025-09-04 Daily Xml

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The Hon. F. PANGALLO (14:27): Supplementary: what is more important to the minister, national consistency or the livelihoods and survival of the South Australian wine industry?

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The national consistency part was part of it; the survival part was not necessarily part of it, so answer as you wish, minister.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:27): Obviously, the honourable member is setting up a false dichotomy. That would be, I think, reasonably indicative of what he has done for many, many years in previous careers, not just in the current one. Obviously, it's important to the government and it's important to industry to have, as far as possible, national consistency as well as a thriving industry.

I have spoken many times in this place about the challenges facing the wine industry and the significant assistance that both this government and the commonwealth government have provided. We look forward, on that note, to further information coming from the federal government from the investigations they have been doing.