Senate debates
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Questions without Notice
Carbon Pricing
2:43 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source
There is $200 million of structural adjustment assistance that is available, as the senator says, to support regions that remain strongly affected by the carbon price. This is over and above the very significant assistance that I was going through earlier. I understand this is to be delivered by Mr Crean, but I will check that that is the case and come back to the Senate if that is not correct. I will provide more information. Obviously the bills were passed today, so I am not sure we would have done guidelines on funding in the last hour and a half or couple of hours, but I will certainly come back to the senator if there is—
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