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

The proposal for the construction of a brickworks at Perth Airport has been through the most rigorous environmental assessment by my department. It has been considered by Mr Truss. It has been approved with 60 of the most rigorous environmental conditions, way over and above those on any brickworks in Australia. That is in stark contrast to the fact that the state Labor Party has approved two new brickwork kilns less than a kilometre away. I table the Environmental Protection Authority process that basically says that neither of these kilns approved by Senator Sterle’s comrades in the state parliament went through any public process. There was no environmental assessment and they are pumping pollution into the Swan Valley airshed with no approvals and no monitoring. The Labor Party are absolute hypocrites on this issue. I table the document.