Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services) Share this | Hansard source

If successful, this motion will rip funding out of ARENA for next-generation clean technologies that will drive emissions reductions without costing jobs or damaging Australian industries. This is additional funding that will support projects such as EV charging infrastructure, healthier soils, energy efficiency, energy storage, green aluminium and steel production, carbon capture and storage, and hydrogen. ARENA has welcomed this funding, and there has been extensive support from industry and climate organisations, including Ai Group, the Business Council of Australia, the National Farmers Federation, the National Irrigators Council, the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, the Investor Group on Climate Change, the Minerals Council, the Energy Users Association of Australia, Santos, the Australian Hydrogen Council, ClimateWorks, the Carbon Market Institute, APPEA, the Clean Energy Council, the Citizens' Climate Lobby and the Australian Council of Social Service. A move to strip ARENA of this funding is bad for jobs and bad for emissions reduction, and it's bad policy.