Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the parliamentary secretary for responding. He is going to try and get some information. I do not want to put the other questions on record; I want to ask the parliamentary secretary because he is here. We do not put these things on record; we get them explained during a debate. I wonder if the parliamentary secretary would give the chamber the government’s definition of ‘ecologically sustainable development’. The paragraph in the second reading speech immediately following the one which I quoted earlier says:

An example of this—

referring to the previous sentence—

is the right by holders of exploration permits and retention leases to recover petroleum on an appraisal basis.

Could the parliamentary secretary explain that sentence?