Well done Tony Burke.

At last WA farmers will have a choice of to whom they sell their export wheat and at what price.

Victory at last to the champions of free marketing!

This is a treacherous piece of legislation which will destroy the Australian Wheat Industry and is not a reform.

Tony Burke would be well advised to withdraw this legislation.

He should be in no doubt that growers will not meekly submit to this culpable stupidity.

Their anger is also being fueled by the rising costs of inputs (Fetriliser now $1600.00 per tonne) and the continuuing dry.

Congratulations to the Labor Party for addressing the inadequacy of the previous Liberal/National Governments favoured policy of wheat marketing legislation. Growers will now have a choice of to whom they sell their wheat and what price they are happy to accept. The new legislation is welcomed by most farmers and those who are stuck in the 1930's thinking will adjust and prosper in the future.

At last we might be able to get a free market structure through Parliament, allowing growers the flexibility to market their grain as they see fit.

AWB is no longer a grower owned and controlled organisation and as such has no bias toward Australian grain growers.

For this reason alone it has no right to a monopoly on exports.

Congratulations to all those who pushed for this new marketing approach.

Hopefully, we can all move on and make this new era work for the benefit Australian grain growers.

The only winners with this legislation will be the grain traders (especially the farm to port bulk grain handlers).

Wheat growers returns will be reduced and traders profits increased ten fold.

No wonder traders are so excited about the future propects.

The Australian wheat industry could quite easily end up like South Africa, where they now are net importers of wheat as a result of losing a grower collective marketing system.

TO FREE AT LAST & WA Wheat Farmer:

So we have 2 wheat farmers in Aust that think this wheat bill is all about free marketing as does Minister Burke.

Well there is no such thing as a free marketing system that works.

Question to you 2 farmers above -- that is, if you are farmers -- what about the 80%+ that believe in the national marketing pool system?

Where has deregulation worked in rural Australia?

Answer: NO WHERE.

GO AND HAVE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR, HAVE A GOOD LOOK AT YOUR SELVES.

Pete, Wheat Grower NSW.

Could free marketing please advise when AWB Ltd had a constitutional change.

If it occurred it must have slipped through without any one noticing, which is rather odd because growers have the vote.

At the last AGM growers rejected changing the constitution.

TO FREE AT LAST & WA WHEAT FARMER ,

Come clean and declare your vested interests in the demise of the single desk.

Only grain traders have anything to gain from the proposed legislation and that will be at the wheat growers' expense.

Remember competetion always lowers the price for the seller and gives the buyer a better deal.

This is especially so in the grains industry where we always have and always will have an over supply of grain at harvest time (except in years of extreme drought).

As growers we numerous SELLERS DEAL WITH A FEW buyers open to COLLUSION.