Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on the point of order: Senator Faulkner is right. Senator Carr represents the Minister for Trade—as you called him, as a result of my opening question. The second supplementary clearly—and Hansard will show this—was relating the EMDG to innovation, which is directly Senator Carr’s responsibility. Questions were about whether Senator Carr is going to ensure that the government will not be attacking innovation by axing the EMDG as they did with the Commercial Ready program.