Ian Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

The point we make is that that is in fact advice to the minister for transport, who will make a decision about the proposal. I believe that that process should be allowed to run. The point I want to make about the process for the analysis and investigation of the proposal is that it is an incredibly thorough one. It has the most detailed public consultation of any statute in the land. It is in stark contrast to the Western Australian Labor government’s failure to do any sort of investigation into the approval of two kilns less than a kilometre away. The state Labor government approved the expansion of two kilns at an existing brickworks with no approval process whatsoever.

These are brickworks with emissions that are probably five, six or seven times bigger than those in the proposal that is before Mr Truss at the moment. As I said, expansions were approved with no public consultation. That is very embarrassing for the Labor Party members here. We have subjected the proposal by the WA Airports Corporation to a thorough environmental examination. That examination has been provided to Mr Truss, and I have made it quite clear to anyone who has asked that when Mr Truss makes his decision—and that is due in the next couple of months—I expect that the report that I have provided to him will be made public. But it would be a breach of process—