Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, , 8:50:17 to 8:51:37
Details on briefing the Minister's office, DCCEEW, and the National Farmers Federation on ABARES carbon sequestration reports.
Topics: Carbon farming, Agricultural research and levies
Speakers: Speaker 5, Speaker 14, Speaker 12, Speaker 8, Speaker 3
Right. >> My last question on this is just just um what's been the reaction? As I say, I think you've done a brilliant piece of work. Has uh has the Department of Climate Change reached out to be briefed
on this? >> We proactively briefed them as well as the NF >> they >> okay >> they they did listen and they they usefully engaged in the process. We we had kind of went back and forth on on
>> that about the forestry sequestration stuff and we still got a crazy answer.
>> No, I'm just glad someone's doing the work should have been done. That's not your fault per se. Uh and what about the minister? Have you briefed the minister on the work? >> We certainly briefed the office. Yes, we have >> provided a brief. >> Has the minister returned that brief? I think has she read?
>> Uh the nature of the brief was a verbal
brief. >> Okay. Yeah. So the report hasn't gone up to the minister.
>> The report's publicly available.
>> Reports publicly available office receives notifications
>> for the minister. >> It's only a 14page report. It's very well written too. So
>> just to acknowledge the case with as the secretary said we do send all our reports to the office as a part of our uh due course and
>> Okay.
>> Well, we recommend it. >> Yeah. Look, thank you again. Um so I've got just a well actually Matt, do you want to finish yours? Sorry. Sarah Sullivan, finish yours and I've got a