Australian MPs have voted against the government decision to lift the moratorium on the cultivation of GM food crops in all parts of mainland South Australia. The removal of this moratorium was initially proposed in August (see AgbioNews Aug 20, 2019) following an independent review undertaken in 2018 where it was estimated that the moratorium has cost South Australian grain farmers at least AUS$33 million since the 2004 enactment. The moratorium, Genetically Modified Crops Management Act 2004, and its associated regulations were enacted in 2004 to prohibit the cultivation of GM food crops in the whole of South Australia.