Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Because I like to be helpful to the extent that I possibly can, I'll take those questions on notice and see whether we can provide or furnish the senator with information in that regard. It's not in my portfolio or the portfolio that I represent, but 'not to my knowledge' is the answer there.

But, of course, what we see in relation to these projects is millions of dollars being invested by the private sector in developing employment and investment opportunities in regional areas of Australia, and that's to be welcomed. As a government, we're proud of the fact that our work as a government to create the economic climate for more investment in regional Australia is creating more job opportunities for more people across regional Australia. That's why we see unemployment so low. That's why we've seen well over a million jobs created: because we've created the environment for investment across Australia, and we're going to keep doing that to make sure that we keep creating more job opportunities for more Australians.