On 10 February 2011 the Senate referred the impacts of supermarket price decisions on the dairy industry to the Senate Economics Committees for inquiry and report.

The Committee recognises that there have been a number of Senate inquiries into various aspects of the dairy industry recently. The Committee will take into account the submissions received by these inquiries, although it welcomes any additional or updated information from previous submitters.

Submissions should be received by 31 August 2011. The initial reporting date was 15 April 2011. On 22 September 2011, the Senate granted an extension of time for reporting until 1 November 2011.  On 1 November 2011, the Senate granted a further extension of time for reporting until 3 November 2011.  

The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted  online or sent by email to economics.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.

Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:

Department of the Senate
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3540 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5719 or by email to economics.sen@aph.gov.au.

Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at  http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.

Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.