Ursula Stephens (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for his response. I am very pleased to hear that he met with the director of the CRC this morning. The minister referred to the Defeating the Weed Menace program. Since the failed application for the Invasive Plants CRC represented a request of $4 million a year from the Commonwealth and had already raised quite significant funds from other sources, will the minister undertake to further discuss the matter with the proponents of the application to see if funds can be found from other sources in his portfolio or from other portfolios?