Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Can the minister advise the Senate about what the Prime Minister’s six-monthly review of the voluntary Biofuels Action Plan found? Isn’t it the case that the Prime Minister’s review last June found that the oil companies were not remotely likely to achieve their first year target of 124 megalitres? Isn’t it the case that once again the oil companies have thumbed their collective noses at the government about taking up renewable fuels? Isn’t it the case that ethanol and biodiesel producers already make well over 124 megalitres a year but that oil companies will not take it up? Will you now proceed to mandate ethanol and biodiesel?