Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I want to ask a question: why is the financial impact so vastly different in the 2008-09 year than in the 2009-10 year, with the impact going from $370 million to $65 million? I have tried to find it in the material you have provided, but I do not seem to be able to discern what that effect is. I genuinely get the feeling that this is now turning into something with more episodes than Blue Hills and it is basically becoming farcical. What on earth is $900 going to do that $950 did not do? Perhaps it is some form of tokenistic pitch at the eleventh hour to no consequence other than to put a moustache on what was a very poor performance of a Mona Lisa. But to the technical question: I want to know why the financial impact of this is so vastly different. And what can you refer the Senate to to better ascertain where those figures came from?