Kerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Primary Industries, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Regarding the 5/10,000ths of one per cent of expenditure going on the restoration of the rebate for photovoltaic panels to where it was two years ago, can the minister confirm that of the claimed $150 million cost of that measure only $39 million in additional funds are shown in the budget papers? Isn’t it a fact that the remaining $111 million was already in the forward estimates? Isn’t the government guilty of dodgy accounting in its attempt to hide its failure to deal seriously with the threat of climate change, not water?