Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I never thought I would miss Senator Carr! Perhaps the minister might like to have a second stab at answering whether, from 2010, Japan, Europe and the United States will be accessing generation 2 technology. The minister might also answer: when did the government seek to remove its much trumpeted research and development criteria for expenditure of funds from its so-called Green Car Innovation Fund? What conditions has the government put in place to ensure that new so-called green car research and development takes place at Toyota as a result of its grant? The minister could perhaps answer: was Kim Carr right when he told the Weekend Australian:

… it doesn’t have to be new research and development, it doesn’t have to be adopted off the drawing board, it doesn’t have to be newly patented technology …