The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia prepares to again walk away from truth in labelling

This is the Senate bill:

Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling--Palm Oil) Bill 2010 No. , 2010 (Senators Xenophon and Bob Brown) A Bill for an Act to provide for the accurate labelling of palm oil in food, and for related purposes

                                                                                                                           

This is the disappointing response:

Advisory report on the Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil) Bill 2011, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, September 2011

Here is the membership of the committee which produced this report:

Chair Ms Julie Owens MP

Deputy Chair Mr Steven Ciobo MP

Members Mr Scott Buchholz MP

Mr Stephen Jones MP

Dr Andrew Leigh MP

Ms Kelly O'Dwyer MP

Mr Craig Thomson MP

Supplementary Mr Adam Bandt MP

Members Mr Bruce Billson MP

Mr Shayne Neumann MP

Ms Laura Smyth MP

And this is who suffers:

Photograph from The Age in 2007