Media Release
Biotechnology
South Australian Upper House fails state’s farmers and scientists
The Legislative Council’s disallowance of the South Australian Government’s regulations enabling GM crop cultivation on mainland South Australia is a serious blow to the state’s science and farming sectors. Some supporters of the disallowance indicated they did so because they didn’t like the process the government used. This seems like a shallow and weak excuse. Minister Whetstone actually adhered to the specific process of Labor’s own legislation to seek to enable farmer access to GM…