QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator McGRATH (Queensland) (14:14): Minister, it is no longer a fuel crisis; it is now a fuel and fertiliser crisis. Urea prices have nearly doubled from $800 to $1,500 a tonne. The latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey shows farmer confidence has crashed to minus 20.

Grain farmers are warning that combined fuel and fertiliser costs will markedly lower Australia's wheat production, even if the conflict is resolved tomorrow. Does the government now accept that the planting window is closing and the damage to this year's harvest may already be done?