Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

When the $9.6 million was expended from the May budget, we indicated that these were exit grants which were designed to assist those people who were eligible for exit grants from the system. The amount of money that was made available is significant, given that we are no longer in drought circumstances on the eastern seaboard. If there are individual cases, then Senator McKenzie can bring those up to my office and we can have a look at what circumstances those individuals may be in at that particular time. I will not take it on advice that there are people in that circumstance, but if there are individuals then that advice could be provided to my office and we can have a look at those individual circumstances.