Senator CAMPBELL (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer)(5.32 p.m.) —I would like to quickly say why the government will not be accepting or supporting the amendment. Prior to doing that, let me state for the record that, to the best of my advice, Mr Maynard is not the president of AMEC; he is actually a consultant employed by AMEC. The government is opposed to this amendment because we believe that it would actually result in quite a substantial expansion of the diesel fuel rebate scheme. I guess we are a bit confused as to what the Labor Party is doing, because to remove the `connected with' provisions would seem to be in absolute contravention to the measures it took when it was in power. We believe that in particular transport activities could well become eligible and that this would involve a significant increase in expenditure in and expansion of the rebate scheme. For these reasons, we will be opposing the amendment.