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

For your sake, I hope it is very soon; for my sake, I hope it is a long, long time. What I want to know is: what will the Labor Party do with this power? Why would you make all these assessments as part of every assessment, depending on where the chamber ends up on its amendment—100,000 tonnes or 500,000 tonnes of carbon—if a future Labor environment minister would not stop a facility pumping 10 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere or one million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere? What would the Labor Party’s decision be on the Anvil Hill coalmine? That is what I want to know, and I think it is a fair question. They are the ones proposing the amendment.