Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for confirming that not one cent of the $500 million fund announced in 2004 has been spent and that no contribution has been made through this fund to tackling climate change. Maybe it is because the minister himself is a climate change denier. Not one cent has been spent. It is still in the budget papers; the money has not been spent. Isn’t it a fact that the budget papers also reveal that the Solar Cities program, also announced way back in June 2004, is also significantly underspent—that you have failed to spend the money allocated for that project as well? Aren’t Australians justified in concluding—