Kerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Transport) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. Can the minister confirm that his department told him that to rely on the Biosis report to block the Bald Hills development would have ramifications for all coastal development—not just wind farms—from south-east South Australia through southern New South Wales and western Tasmania? Is it also true that the minister was told that a decision to veto Bald Hills on the basis of the Biosis report would be totally inconsistent with approvals—