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

The question is, of course: if Labor stopped a wind farm proposal at Port Fairy, as Minister Hulls did recently, or at Ballan, which he did six months ago, where does Labor get off in relation to its hypocrisy in saying that those refusals would have no impact? I happen to believe my department is not right about that. I do not think there is a risk to other coastal developments, and one of the reasons I can actually demonstrate that they are wrong in relation to that is: since I made the Bald Hills decision, in fact, one wind farm proposal every fortnight has passed through the same process, so it can hardly be seen as a threat to wind power development. So both Senator O’Brien and my own department are wrong. But what Senator O’Brien should answer—and if he wants to address the—