Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. This minister seems quite incapable of answering any question, so I repeat: firstly, is the $25 million announced just last week to compensate for the $120 million that was cut from the previous programs of the coalition? Secondly, is it also true that the government has allowed only one month for applicants to apply for these contestable grants? Thirdly, now that the minister has had a couple of weeks to look at this, could she tell us exactly how many jobs have been lost in rural and regional Australia by the Labor government’s cutback of funding to natural resource management groups?