Kylea Tink (North Sydney, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I promise this is my final question. Again, I acknowledge that the minister, her team and I have had this conversation, and again I would appeal that this be considered as this legislation goes to the Senate. The challenge of separating this bill, which I consider and many consider to be the primary piece of legislation, from the national standard when it comes to community consultation is that we have no line of sight on when we will see that national standard of community consultation. So the principle of reflecting that obligation to community engagement—the legislation makes it pretty clear that there is an obligation to proponents. I think that there is still an opportunity to strengthen this legislation by bringing that same responsibility into what I would call the head legislation, as opposed to leaving it to the national standards, particularly given that we don't have a line of sight on when those national standards will come—and, in a worst-case scenario, they never come. I just wanted to put that on record.

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