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

The minister says that the government cannot support these amendments as they are about red tape. Can the minister indicate what so far has happened with regard to audits and what the aim of the government is in terms of compliance with audits that find that there is cost-effective energy efficiency that can be developed in corporations? At what point will the government say, ‘We need to have a bit of push and shove here because industry is just not taking up those opportunities which are discovered by their audits’? How successful has the program been so far in terms of those companies adopting measures found to be cost-effective by those audits? At what point will the government say, ‘We need to toughen up here and make this something other than a voluntary scheme’?