House debates Questions without Notice: Additional Answers
Climate Change
John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
3:16 pm
Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
I was asked a question by the member for McMillan regarding investments in clean coal technology and I mistakenly said that the Commonwealth contribution to the Callide power station was $187 million. That is the value of the project. The Commonwealth contribution, out of the $500 million low-emission technology fund we announced a couple of years ago, was $50 million. I also may have mistakenly said that real wages were rising at 16.4 per cent a year. I know it is good, but it is not that good. It is 16.4 per cent over the 10½ years we have been in government.