Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. But this proposal that I am discussing—which has been denied leave to be tabled by government senators—clearly confirms that the minister misled the public over his claims that the project would kill one parrot every year instead of one bird every 1,000 years. This document shows it. No wonder they do not want it tabled here. It also confirms that the minister abused his power, misled the public and tried to cover his tracks. We all know, and it is firmly on the public record, that the Bald Hills wind farm was blocked in April as a political favour by the minister to the member for McMillan. We know that because he was ordered to pay costs and to reconsider the proposal. How incompetent is he? The proposal has been on the website and today in question time he did not even know it was there or what it contained. Well, well, well. He has been completely and thoroughly exposed as being incompetent to an extraordinary level. That just about sums up the Howard government’s performance on climate change, on environmental management and on the issue of the Bald Hills wind farm. (Time expired)