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

The member for Wentworth authored the document that provided the scientific foundation for the south-west. The previous government authored the policies that have dictated how we will run the displacement policies throughout this process. What we have got is a situation where the opposition have decided that environmental protection is something that they need to say no to at every single location. You will not find the member for Leichhardt talking about the impact on his electorate for the dive industry, because the dive industry, a cornerstone of the tourism industry in Cairns, has been out there backing this. They know that Osprey Reef in particular—one of the top five dive sites in the world—is now on the global map in a much stronger way because it has been given the level of marine protection that it always should have had. But no—no mention from the member for Leichhardt of the benefits for some of the tourism sectors in his own electorate—

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