Ministers and Senators Behaving Badly Series 4

If you can't convince them, then confuse them …
Peter Whish-Wilson, the Greens recycling spokesman, told Guardian
Australia “given that not a cent has been spent a whole year later, this
looks to be yet another empty announceable”.
“It just demonstrates that the government isn’t serious about fixing the
waste crisis and building a functional circular economy,” he said.
When Guardian Australia asked the environment minister, Sussan Ley, if
she was concerned by the output of the Rif, a spokesman did not answer
directly, instead saying “the Morrison government is driving
unprecedented investment in waste and recycling and is working closely
with industry and non-government organisations to drive lasting change”.
The spokesman also said the $100 million Recycling Investment Fund “has
a particular focus on large-scale recycling projects which use clean energy
technologies” and rejected the idea the subsequently announced Recycling
Modernisation Fund was cannibalising potential applications.
The government has recently been forced into finding new solutions to
manage Australia’s waste and recycling, after governments including those
of Indonesia and Malaysia announced they would return recycling that had
been “contaminated” with unrelated waste.
Source:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-17/murray-darling-missing-water-infloodplains/12887342