Senate debates

Wednesday, 24 July 2019

Bills

Future Drought Fund Bill 2019, Future Drought Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019; In Committee

11:42 am

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Cormann, the Greens initiated the Senate inquiry into the PRRT nearly three years ago. It was chaired by previous Labor senator Chris Ketter and championed by previous Labor senator Sam Dastyari. The inquiry went for about 15 months, and we took substantial evidence on what was wrong with the PRRT. In fact, on the last day of our hearings in Perth, the Callaghan review, which was the government's own review into the PRRT, was literally released the minute our hearing opened in Perth. Of course, we hadn't had time to scrutinise it, nor had many of our witnesses—

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