❓ Hon. Anthony Fels asks if the WA government will fund a beef supply study after the federal government withdrew funding. Hon. Kim Chance responds, disagreeing with the premise of federal withdrawal of support, but expressing support for a supply chain analysis and indicating the department may undertake it.
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STOCKTAKE BEEF SUPPLY STUDY — FUNDING
My question without notice, of which some notice has been given, is to the Minister for Agriculture and Food. I refer to the federal government’s decision not only to cease FarmBis funding but also to withdraw funds for the Stocktake program for the statewide study into beef supply. Given the commonwealth government’s lack of support for the farming sector, will the state government commit funds to this extremely necessary inquiry into the state beef industry? Hon KIM CHANCE
My question without notice, of which some notice has been given, is to the Minister for Agriculture and Food. I refer to the federal government’s decision not only to cease FarmBis funding but also to withdraw funds for the Stocktake program for the statewide study into beef supply. Given the commonwealth government’s lack of support for the farming sector, will the state government commit funds to this extremely necessary inquiry into the state beef industry? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I believe Hon Anthony Fels said that notice had been given of that question. Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
I refer to the federal government’s decision not only to cease FarmBis funding but also to withdraw funds for the Stocktake program for the statewide study into beef supply. Given the commonwealth government’s lack of support for the farming sector, will the state government commit funds to this extremely necessary inquiry into the state beef industry? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I believe Hon Anthony Fels said that notice had been given of that question. Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I believe Hon Anthony Fels said that notice had been given of that question. Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
I believe Hon Anthony Fels said that notice had been given of that question. Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
I refer to the federal government’s decision not only to cease FarmBis funding but also to withdraw funds for the Stocktake program for the statewide study into beef supply. Given the commonwealth government’s lack of support for the farming sector, will the state government commit funds to this extremely necessary inquiry into the state beef industry? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I believe Hon Anthony Fels said that notice had been given of that question. Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I believe Hon Anthony Fels said that notice had been given of that question. Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
I believe Hon Anthony Fels said that notice had been given of that question. Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
Hon Anthony Fels : I understand it has. Has it not been given? Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
Hon KIM CHANCE : No. I am happy to answer that question in more detail, but it is a proper question to ask of me and I am happy to try to handle it. Without having a copy of the question, I picked up something in the question that I do not necessarily agree with. I think it was an expression of opinion that the commonwealth is, as a general matter, withdrawing support from agriculture. I do not believe that is correct. I think the process we are seeing is that of a new government settling in and attempting to apply funding to its priority areas. Yes, programs that had earlier been approved by the coalition government are being withdrawn and perhaps recast in different forms. However, time will tell whether I am right in that assumption. The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
The member has asked an interesting question about the inquiry into the beef industry. I was a supporter of at least part of the proposed inquiry that the former commonwealth government had agreed to conduct. The part that I believe is the most important component of the inquiry is, in effect, a supply chain analysis of the beef industry. I agree with the member’s view that this is a necessary and important thing to do. A supply chain analysis could tell us a great deal about what is wrong with the beef industry and why one of our red meat industries is performing poorly while another is doing very well. There is clearly a difference, which is unusual frankly, between the two sectors—beef and lamb—of the red meat industry. I think there is cause to look at the matter. As recently as today, in consideration of the federal government’s decision not to fund this particular study, I have had some discussions with the Department of Agriculture and Food, with a view to at least ascertaining our capacity, as a department, to carry out that supply chain analysis. It will take a week or two before I have an answer on that question, but I believe that if certain persons are available, we have people within the department who are far more qualified to carry out this inquiry than is any private sector consultant. I will wait for the Director General of Agriculture and Food to advise me on the availability of those persons, but I would like to see at least the supply chain analysis component of the proposed inquiry undertaken. I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
I thank the honourable member for asking the question, and I hope that within a couple of weeks I will be able to give him better advice.
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