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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question: didn’t the minister’s predecessor, David Kemp, approve four wind farms in the safe seat of Wannon in October 2002? Is it true that as a condition of approving these wind farms, which were a proven threat to the orange-bellied parrots, the developer had to implement a management plan for the parrot? Isn’t this what the minister’s department advised this minister he should do in respect of Bald Hills, advice which this minister totally ignored? Hasn’t the minister ignored his department, broken legal precedent and threatened millions of dollars of coastal development all for the sake of propping up a Liberal Party mate in a marginal seat?