Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I refer to the government’s election promise to provide $15 million in top-up funding to drought affected rural research and development corporations. Why has that money not been paid? Why did the government instead cut $63 million from the budget of the CSIRO, which has led to the closure of six research stations?

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