Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

The parliamentary secretary might explain what that $30 million will do. If it is just to promote recycling, that is not the problem. What we need to do is promote a market for the recycled product; otherwise, we are going to have containers right around the country with millions of litres of recycled oil sitting around waiting for someone to buy them. A two-year transition might be okay for those two years, but what happens after that? There will still be the competition from gas for this recycled oil. If gas does not attract an excise, gas is going to look pretty attractive to those burners of recycled oil for some of the uses that you mentioned earlier today—for greenhouse and the like. What is that $30.1 million going to be spent on? If it is just promoting more recycling, all we are going to do is add to the stockpile—which, as I said, we will have trouble finding a market for.