Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

That is a modest increase, I acknowledge, in the total appropriation. It is true that an efficiency dividend will apply, but there is an increase in the total expenditure to be provided to CSIRO. That will in effect mean $39.8 million for the organisation. That of course has to be seen in the context of an additional $25 million that will be provided for clean coal technologies through the research programs in those areas. (Time expired)