Senator BROWN (11:27 AM) —As I said earlier, I totally support the single desk scheme. I only wish that other primary producers also had the assured prices that this brings to Queensland sugar growers, and I think that other industries should look at that. If there is one further indictment of the ACCC, it is the fact that it sees this as a monopoly that should be broken down. Broken down in whose interests? Big confectionary manufacturers? Big supermarkets which want to trade off one sugar grower against another and send them to the wall? It is certainly not in the interests of rural Queensland or, for that matter, in the interests, if the scheme was available, of rural New South Wales. I support the sugar growers and I support the House in making this move.

Amendment agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Bill reported with amendments.