Tony Windsor (New England, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to ongoing calls for an independent study into the potential impact of subsidence mining on alluvial flood plains that are underlain with hydraulically linked and interconnected groundwater systems. Prime Minister, given the lack of available scientific evidence and the significance of these systems to the inflows into the Murray-Darling river system and the growing investment uncertainty in the mining industry over a state based approval process and a Commonwealth disapproval process, could you, Prime Minister, investigate the option of the federal government breaking this nexus and co-funding a study in conjunction with the New South Wales government and the mining industry?

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