Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

It would be entirely improper, and not the way you set up the process, for the government to make the decisions. We would not need ARENA. If you want the government to make these sorts of decisions, why have ARENA at all? Let's just have a discussion here and you could say you want a hundred million dollars there—'I want one for my backyard. I want one for over there.' That is not the way the process works. ARENA is there for a purpose. ARENA has a job to do. We want ARENA to do the job. I am not going to second-guess the professional judgements that ARENA makes in relation to this. It would be entirely improper.