Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

This was a lapsing program, using the words of Senator Wong herself just then. Just then, in a very ill-disciplined interjection, the leader of the Labor opposition in this place acknowledged it was a lapsing program. Which was the government that provided the money to ensure that it was no longer lapsing? It was the coalition, it was us, that restored the funding. So, please, Senator Carr, you who cut science and research in this country by hundreds of millions of dollars have no credibility in this area. (Time expired)