Andrew Laming (Bowman, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. I refer the minister to an email from 25 August last year from the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors, the ABSA, which is the accreditor of green assessors, urging his department at that time to urgently cap accreditor numbers to prevent further overloading and protect the work available to assessors. Will the minister accept responsibility for the impact of this massive oversupply of assessors on people like Robert from Cleveland in my electorate of Bowman, who has seen his livelihood destroyed and can never hope to recoup a return on the thousands of dollars he has invested in becoming an assessor? Why should the public have any confidence in this minister, given his gross incompetence displayed in the managing of his responsibilities?

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