As we have seen in the past, if the government of the day wants to ignore findings from a Senate Inquiry, they are buried and never enacted.
Never has there been a better example than the Senate Inquiry into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, conducted in 2015.
From the start, it was obvious to many that this plan was built on political motives, not environmental ones.
Many flaws in the plan were identified at the 2015 inquiry, with more than 30 recommendations which could have improved its implementation.
But they did not suit the political narrative of Labor and the Greens, while the Coalition did not have the numbers in the Senate to enact legislation to support the recommendations, so they have been left on a shelf gathering dust.
I suspect any Senate Inquiry attempt to pull greedy and powerful supermarket companies into line will have the same result.
Meanwhile, the Basin Plan that Senators wanted to improve back in 2015 goes from bad to worse.
Under the Albanese Government it will rip huge additional quantities of water away from food production, but due to complexities of water delivery there will be limited environmental benefit.
The best way to keep supermarket prices down is to support our farmers, but unfortunately this is a concept our current PM does not understand.
Yours etc.
Shelley Scoullar
Albury
13°C