QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator COLBECK (Tasmania) (15:00): My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer. On 19 March, I forwarded a letter from Tas Farmers and wrote to the Treasurer expressing concern about the market distortion being created by the subsidisation of the purchase of the 22,000-hectare irrigated dairy and beef farm Rushy Lagoon by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to a foreign investment company to convert that property to growing trees to store carbon to provide offsets for foreign companies.

Minister, as of today, Tas Farmers have received no response from any member of the government—not the Treasurer and not the ag minister, who also has an interest. Why haven't Tas Farmers received a response and when will they?