Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Van, as you know, the chief vehicle for providing support for emerging technology and technology trials is ARENA. In our last budget, the government substantially replenished ARENA's funds to provide support for a range of technologies, including, potentially, the technologies that you speak of.

We are conscious that this is a world in which Australia is just one participant in a global market where vehicle manufacturers around the world are thinking about how best to integrate this capacity into the vehicles that they sell. I am quite certain that the reforms we have undertaken to change the shape of the Australian market will see Australians with a much greater opportunity to access some of these vehicles as they come into commercial production globally.