Good try Scotty! Howard never regulated the milk market it was already regulated by the states. In the late 1990s the Victorian dairy industry pushed for DEREGULATION and the other states followed suit as they knew once Victoria DEREGULATED their milk market they would become uncompetitive. It ultimately allowed dairies to be able to sell more milk but pushed smaller dairies out of the industry. John Howard’s government actually supplied subsidies to dairy farmers to help them transition out of the industry. Milk was subsidised at 11 cents a litre costing around 2 billion dollars over the life of the subsidies.
