Senate debates

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Questions without Notice

National Reconstruction Fund

2:30 pm

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The Albanese government has earmarked a further $1 billion from the NRF towards advanced manufacturing, and a separate $1 billion for critical technologies. But your critical technologies list includes advanced manufacturing as a category of critical technology—it's the first category. You've decided to set up separate buckets of money for different things, but a dollar spent in the first counts as a dollar spent in the second. Do you see how that may be confusing?

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