Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. There is no confirmation about the modelling, so I will try again. Did the minister agree with the Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, when he said:

Having the government pick projects for subsidy is a recipe for fiscal recklessness on a grand scale … industry and businesses attended by an army of lobbyists are particularly persuasive and all too effective at getting their sticky fingers into the taxpayer's pocket.