Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities) Share this | Hansard source

Not only were the principles that were arrived at by the previous government in terms of displacement policy the principles that we are now following through on, but the science which was delivered by the previous government has formed some of the scientific foundations for the principles that we followed. The south-west would be the biggest one. On the south-west document there—the bioregional profile for the science—you will see a photograph of a bloke that you might recognise. He used to be the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources.

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