Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. I refer to the pulp and paper industry strategy group which he announced last week, and I ask: how much is that group going to cost the taxpayer between now and November or whenever it reports? I also ask the minister, who has said that there is a balance to be sought between environmental concerns and economic activity by the pulp and paper industry: who are the environmentalists on this wall-to-wall industry group of lobbyists being facilitated by the government to draw up a lobbying plan for the government to get their hands on taxpayers’ money or taxpayer funded facilitation of the industry?