Looks like not everyone will have been happy with yesterday's decision.

"The worst possible outcome in my view is that we get forced into a position as the US did and as Brazil did where they had made a decision to not be GM or at least keep GM separate from non-GM, and then find that by default other things happen that take that control away from the [agricultural] industry." - Western Australia Agriculture Minister Kim Chance
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Chance wants quarantine laws tightened
ABC News, 26 October 2005
http://abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_1490866.htm

Western Australia Agriculture Minister Kim Chance says federal quarantine laws need to be tightened to prevent further instances of contamination from genetic modification (GM).

Mr Chance is in Launceston, in northern Tasmania, today for a meeting of federal and state agriculture ministers, a day after it was revealed genetically modified material had been found in canola crops growing near Albany, in southern Western Australia.

The latest contamination comes after GM material was found in trial crops in Lake Grace and Cranbrook last month.

Every state in Australia apart from Queensland has a moratorium on the commercial production of GM crops.

But Mr Chance says current federal laws do not support the states' position.

"Specifically the quarantine act doesn't provide the necessary guarantees that we can make illegal and prevent the importation of seed of this nature," he said.

He says if the situation persists, the states will lose the ability to choose whether or not to adopt GM technology.

"The worst possible outcome in my view is that we get forced into a position as the US did and as Brazil did where they had made a decision to not be GM or at least keep GM separate from non-GM, and then find that by default other things happen that take that control away from the industry."