Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw it. I ask the minister then: did her government deliberately mislead the Australian public in suggesting that there would be savings from reductions announced to the Asia-Pacific Network for Energy Technology and the Low Emissions Technology and Abatement program; the reduction in the Renewable Remote Power Generation Program; the slashed funding for the CSIRO research vessel, the Southern Surveyor; and the cutting of funding to the Asia-Pacific forestry skills and capacity building Global Initiative on Forests and Climate Change? Further, how do the cuts to those areas, if they happened—or if they did not, I will go back to my first question—help address climate change?