Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I can assure Senator Carr that we are backing them. And I can assure Senator Carr that when we tell them we are going to do something, that is what we will do. When we say we are going to do something, we will actually deliver it.

I look back at Senator Carr's record: he was in, he was out, he was in and he was out as the industry minister. His legacy is one of extraordinary failure. We are great supporters of the science community and the science community knows that it has a friend in the coalition. It knows what occurred under the Labor Party. For someone opposite to be talking about funding arrangements, when Senator Carr and those opposite took this nation from $40,000 million in the black to $653 billion in the red, I think is a bit rich; I think it is a bit rich for Senator Carr to be making any comments about any funding matters at all.