Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I resume, to finish the debate. We as a coalition do not believe that transparency equals undermining. Senator Carr must have a strange dictionary or thesaurus if he thinks that ‘transparency’ is a synonym for ‘undermining’. We believe that transparency would add to the robustness of the debate about support for the sector, but I note that on two occasions the minister has provided the usual hyperbole, the spray, but not the detailed information that I had sought. Time is getting on so I will not pursue the matter further, other than to indicate that this is an unfortunate short-term decision by the government which is not within the long-term interests of this sector.

Question agreed to.

Resolution reported; report adopted.