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

We're working with proponents on all of these projects to minimise any impact on matters of national environmental significance, and that would include land clearing where it's necessary. But it's interesting that the Leader of the Nationals is only interested in land clearing when it comes to renewable energy projects. He's not interested in land clearing if it's a mining project, he's not interested in land clearing if it's a housing project, and he's not interested in land clearing when it's the shadow Treasurer poisoning grasslands with his company's—

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