Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. It astonishes me that the honourable member has not been following this debate more closely since that article was first produced, and in fact since that correspondence was first issued. What we have said—and this is the case—is that we will continue negotiations with the New South Wales government on those matters that have been identified in that correspondence. I am happy to report to the House that those negotiations are ongoing. I also want to make it perfectly clear to the honourable member opposite that no stopwork order has been issued. This is correspondence between the department and the New South Wales government and on that basis negotiations are underway between those two governments.

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