Senator Janet Rice\u00a0today introduced a motion to disallow the Gene Technology Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe deregulation of new genetic modification techniques being pursued by this government has huge economic risks to Australia\u2019s $48 billion agricultural export industry,\u201d Senator Rice said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis deregulation could potentially kill our organic farming industry and massively hamper our traditional agriculture export industry too.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) has assessed this issue on a scientific and health basis, it has paid no consideration to the market impact of deregulation, nor has it properly consulted with the farmers whose livelihoods will be affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a strong chance organic regulators locally and internationally will decide that since Australia has deregulated this technology, farmers will lose their organic certification. Without that certification, the organics industry would collapse entirely.<\/p>\n
\u201cEurope already says these new technologies are genetic modification technologies, and the risk is that if we proceed with this deregulation, countries such as China and the European Union could reject our exports.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralian agricultural exports to China alone are a nearly $12 billion industry,covering a huge suite of agricultural commodities.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany in the farming community are concerned that they\u2019re going to lose access to export markets and the government hasn\u2019t allayed those concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Greens hope to receive cross-party support when this disallowance motion comes to a vote in the September sitting weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senator Janet Rice\u00a0today introduced a motion to disallow the Gene Technology Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019. \u201cThe deregulation of new genetic modification techniques being pursued by this government has huge economic risks to Australia\u2019s $48 billion agricultural export industry,\u201d Senator Rice said. \u201cThis deregulation could potentially kill our organic farming industry and massively … Continue reading “Greens move to disallow the Gene Technology Regulations 2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}