Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, , 4:40:09 to 5:16:44
Following a break, the committee reconvenes to discuss the development timeline and progress of the National Food Security Strategy.
Topics: Food security, Agricultural productivity
Speakers: Unknown Speaker, Speaker 21, Matt Lowe, Senator Ross Cadell, Senator Glenn Sterle, Hon Malarndirri McCarthy
>> All right. Thank you very much. We'll uh we welcome back everyone and I'd like to welcome Minister Melander McCarthy. Always great to see you here at RAP Minister.
>> My pleasure. Thank you, Chair.
>> And questions. Uh Senator Cadell.
>> Thank you, Chair. Um want to go to food security strategy below. >> Um couldn't get a specific date. We heard mid27 last estimate. So we still mid 27. We hone that down. Is there
>> we haven't narrowed it down any further. Senator still mid202.
>> Can't even give me early mid 27 late mid 27th.
>> I can't. [laughter] As much as I would like to give you greater um clarity I
can't. Senator >> Otherwise while I'm breaking a chair generally where's it up to? What do we how far we advance? what's what are the remaining steps? What have we got to do on it?
>> Sure. Um I'll pass to the team, but in general, the work is progressing well. Um we've concluded all of the um consultation and co-design um that we intended to do as an input into into the drafting. Um and there's been multiple meetings of the um National Food Council as well. Um but I will pass to colleagues to give you further
>> Thanks, Mr. Lo. Joanna Stan, our first assistant secretary agriculture and food division. So um as Mr. Lo mentioned we have um undertaken broad engagement across the community through our co-design sessions. Um we ran 36 of those with about 400 odd uh participants. So we're certainly in the phase now of drafting the strategy and working with colleagues across the Commonwealth um to look at what the priorities should be of the strategy. looking at the evidence that we've collected through code design and um some other analysis that we've been doing over the last 12 months uh to prepare it.