Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

The NRF is first and foremost a manufacturing fund. It is designed to grow our capacity and our capability to ensure that Australia can once again be a country that makes things. It was never intended to fund the extraction of minerals or the logging of timber in any form, so, when the Greens asked us to confirm that by including it in the legislation, we were happy to put it in.