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

Thank you to Senator Carr for the question. It is rather amusing to have a member of the Victorian Labor Party accusing me of playing politics on this issue when that is all that his state Labor Party comrades have sought to do over recent weeks. What we do know—it is a fact that is before the courts—is that the proponents of the wind farm, of just over 50 wind turbines down at Gippsland, in fact approached me and said, ‘We would like to get this out of court and we would like the chance to make another submission to you.’ They asked for a number of other conditions, which I did not agree to. I said, ‘If you want me to receive another submission’—