Ian Macfarlane (Groom, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, they want to take me to task on that, but the Minister for Trade came into this chamber and much vaunted the changes he would make to the EMDG Scheme but it was not until the budget was delivered that we actually found that this much-vaunted increase in the funding was for only one year—nothing for next year, something for the year after and then nothing more for the two out years after that. Those people who believed the Minister for Trade and what he said found out the hard way that what this government says is not always what it will do. We cannot really be sure whether this government means what it says or will insist so vehemently down the track that it did not actually mean what it said or what people thought it said. We have found consistently—

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