Madeleine King (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

For the benefit of the House and the Leader of the Greens, the $30 million you're speaking of is from the cooperative drilling program that was a commitment under the former government. That money has been expended or is in the current use of those contracts. It goes to the question asked earlier to the minister for industry, who's not responsible for that work. This government has ended that program, and the remaining part of that funding envelope has now been returned to the budget.

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