Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I want to thank the Leader of the Nationals for his question. It's interesting that he suggested that the company doesn't believe that the project is viable, because the chairman has just bought 15,000 extra shares and one of the other directors has just bought more than 10,000 extra shares with his wife. The CEO and his wife, through Deckchair Trust, have bought more than 10,000 extra shares. But, just to be very clear here, I have not blocked the gold mine. What I've said is, of this 2½-thousand-hectare site, 400 hectares ought to be protected. I've done it on the basis of advice from the same group of traditional owners as the former minister for the environment—

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