Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 19 June 2012:

(1) With reference to the committee of experts developing the new System of Environmental–Economic Accounting chaired by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), how much progress is being made in other countries towards improving measures of economic wellbeing.

(2) Why are environmental expenditure accounts for Australia no longer produced.

(3)   Are there any plans for the ABS to produce multifactor productivity estimates that also include inputs of natural and environmental resources.

(4) Why has the ABS taken the view that subsoil assets do not exist until we find them, rather than regarding the asset as having always been there, thereby revising back the series when a new deposit is discovered.

(5) How does the ABS respond to claims by Professor John Quiggin that a productivity slowdown has not occurred as there was no significant productivity acceleration in the 1990s.