Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the minister refuses to stand by either the spoken word of Mr Garrett or the written word of the COAG communique, I ask whether she will now stand by the budget papers released just a few weeks ago. I refer the minister to page 206 of Budget Paper No. 2, which states that funding for solar rebates will continue until the program transitions to Solar Credits under the expanded renewable energy target on 1 July 2009. Were the budget papers, released just a few weeks ago, just plain wrong, or were they also deliberately misleading as part of the government’s cruel hoax on the solar industry and Australia’s solar consumers?